Working as a childcare worker in Lithuania
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Lithuania: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Lithuania, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 1,331 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Lithuania. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 1,331 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Lithuania: ≈ 1,331 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 Lithuania.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
- Recognition authority
- The Ministry of Education and Science is the recognition authority for the regulated preschool-teacher/educator title; the frozen family also includes childcare-worker jobs outside that named route.
- Language requirement
- For the named preschool-teacher and education posts, the official-language requirement is category 2 or 3, depending on the regulated post; the page does not state a CEFR equivalence.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Lithuania: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 518404cfcf5f603539967b8bd96ec90d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/lithuania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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