Working as a nurse in Latvia
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Latvia: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Latvia, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 1,738 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Nurse is a regulated profession in Latvia. Foreign qualifications go through: General care nurse.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 1,738 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General care nurse
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Latvia: ≈ 1,738 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 Latvia.
- Recognition route
- General care nurse. General system of recognition - primary application. Specialist (and General care) Nurse. AIC first compares education and practical training, then the Health Inspectorate decides; EU general-care nurses may use the European Professional Card. Partial equivalence can require adaptation or an aptitude test.
- Recognition authority
- AIC is the information institution; the Health Inspectorate decides recognition for named nursing/assistant routes and maintains the practitioner register.
- Language requirement
- AIC says nurses must know Latvian at C1; foreign-trained medical registrants also submit official-language proof.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Latvia: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 9177597c0cac356be66add2a3191d71c]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/latvia/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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