Working as a childcare worker in Romania
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Romania: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Romania, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 637 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Romania. Foreign qualifications go through: For educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher professions listed as regulated, recognition is handled by the Ministry of Education authority; other childcare roles may follow different rules. In Romania, childcare workers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 637 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- For educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher professions listed as regulated, recognition is handled by the Ministry of Education authority; other childcare roles may follow different rules.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Romania: ≈ 637 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. 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 Romania.
- Recognition route
- For educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher professions listed as regulated, recognition is handled by the Ministry of Education authority; other childcare roles may follow different rules. General system of recognition - primary application.
- Recognition authority
- Ministry of Education for the listed educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher subset; not every frozen childcare role.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for childcare worker in Romania: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 4e843fb51f38ef74fe7a6a0e08949e43]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/romania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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