Working as a nurse in Hungary
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Hungary: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Hungary, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 1,144 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Nurse is a regulated profession in Hungary. Foreign qualifications go through: General care nurse.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 1,144 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General care nurse
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Hungary: ≈ 1,144 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 Hungary.
- Recognition route
- General care nurse. Specialist Nurse. Specialist (and General care) Nurse. Not applicable. The applicant requests recognition. The authority selects automatic, general-system or non-EEA procedure from the qualification and origin; the general system can require an adaptation period or aptitude test. After recognition, basic and operational registration may still be required.
- Recognition authority
- The National Directorate General for Hospitals (NDGFH/OKFŐ) handles the health qualifications assigned to it by the official matrix; the Educational Authority’s OH-MEIK handles specified non-EEA higher health qualifications. Select by exact qualification, origin and applicant category.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Hungary: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 8d785b94c1fffa3b0e0dc10eb75d4add]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/hungary/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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