Working as a nurse in Lithuania
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Lithuania: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Lithuania, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 2,248 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Nurse is a regulated profession in Lithuania. Foreign qualifications go through: General care nurse. In Lithuania, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 2,248 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General care nurse
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Lithuania: ≈ 2,248 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 nurses alone.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Lithuania.
- Recognition route
- General care nurse. Specialist (and General care) Nurse. Submit the professional-qualification recognition application through the VASPVT route selected for the qualification origin and practice type; this is followed by the separate Lithuanian practice-licence step.
- Recognition authority
- VASPVT is the competent authority for the named general-care nurse recognition route; its catalogue separates permanent practice, temporary service and third-country applications.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Lithuania: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Lithuania: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 935812bab3b32403fba6c451b0223321]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/lithuania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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