Working as a nurse in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Bulgaria: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Bulgaria, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 862 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Nurse is a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible. In Bulgaria, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 862 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Bulgaria: ≈ 862 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 nurses alone.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible. General care nurse.
- Recognition authority
- Minister of Health; applications are processed by the Ministry and reviewed through the statutory commission.
- Language requirement
- Bulgarian knowledge sufficient to practise the regulated medical profession is required; the Ministry may assess language competence after recognition when there is a concrete patient-safety concern. No CEFR level or named test is published on the checked route.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse 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.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Bulgaria: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 21f249a525419d8019cabea70098127c]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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