Working as a childcare worker in Slovenia
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Slovenia: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Slovenia, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 2,208 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a childcare worker in Slovenia on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 30,432 € a year (current). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Slovenia. Foreign qualifications go through: Preschool educator and assistant are separate regulated education profiles; recognition is through the Ministry of Education. Generic childcare work in frozen code 5311 is not assumed to use either profile.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 2,208 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Preschool educator and assistant are separate regulated education profiles; recognition is through the Ministry of Education. Generic childcare work in frozen code 5311 is not assumed to use either profile.
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 30,432 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Slovenia: ≈ 2,208 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.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Slovenia publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 30,432 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what childcare workers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Slovenia.
- Recognition route
- Preschool educator and assistant are separate regulated education profiles; recognition is through the Ministry of Education. Generic childcare work in frozen code 5311 is not assumed to use either profile.
- Recognition authority
- The Ministry of Education is the authority for the regulated preschool-teacher and assistant titles; generic childcare-worker scope is separate.
- Language requirement
- Preschool teacher requires active knowledge of written Slovenian; frozen code 5311 generic childcare roles are not covered by that profile.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Childcare worker in Slovenia: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 4b9c20e59adda00599a20883d05a08c0]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/slovenia/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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