Working as a childcare worker in Ireland
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Ireland: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Ireland, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 2,766 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Ireland. Foreign qualifications go through: For regulated early-years services, the service must meet Tusla qualification requirements for the relevant staff role; the checked notices do not set a single individual recognition procedure for all childcare jobs.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 2,766 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- For regulated early-years services, the service must meet Tusla qualification requirements for the relevant staff role; the checked notices do not set a single individual recognition procedure for all childcare jobs.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Ireland: ≈ 2,766 EUR/month (gross, 2024), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of childcare workers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Ireland.
- Recognition route
- For regulated early-years services, the service must meet Tusla qualification requirements for the relevant staff role; the checked notices do not set a single individual recognition procedure for all childcare jobs.
- Recognition authority
- Tusla regulates early-years services and staff qualification requirements; no single individual recognition authority for every childcare-worker role is established by the checked leaves.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Ireland: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 80438b2a1c7440bd5016a28cc8ee01b8]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/ireland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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