Working as an engineer in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as an engineer in Bulgaria: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Bulgaria, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes engineers, earns ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Engineer is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Only exact regulated activity subscopes have professional procedures: investment-design recognition through KIIP under PMS No.219/2005; cadastral practice follows the cadastre law and AGCC register. Ordinary engineer employment qualification is employer-assessed. In Bulgaria, engineers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- Recognition route
- Only exact regulated activity subscopes have professional procedures: investment-design recognition through KIIP under PMS No.219/2005; cadastral practice follows the cadastre law and AGCC register. Ordinary engineer employment qualification is employer-assessed.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Bulgaria: ≈ 1,187 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 engineers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Engineer is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Only exact regulated activity subscopes have professional procedures: investment-design recognition through KIIP under PMS No.219/2005; cadastral practice follows the cadastre law and AGCC register. Ordinary engineer employment qualification is employer-assessed.
- Recognition authority
- No single authority for generic engineering employment. The national register names KIIP for engineers in investment design and AGCC for engineers in geodesy, cartography and cadastre; employers assess generic employee qualifications.
- Language requirement
- For regulated engineering subscopes NACID requires Bulgarian knowledge sufficient to practise; no CEFR level or accepted test is specified. No single language rule is established for generic engineering employment.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for engineer in Bulgaria: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Engineer in Bulgaria: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version ea6d5de46b94d85156e9562a040b2cbf]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/engineer/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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