Working as a nurse in Malta
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Malta: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Malta, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 2,387 EUR/month (gross, 2020). To work as a nurse in Malta on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 35,394 € a year (current). Nurse is a regulated profession in Malta. Foreign qualifications go through: Specialist (and General care) Nurse. In Malta, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 2,387 EUR/month (gross, 2020)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Specialist (and General care) Nurse
- Shortage list
- Listed
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 35,394 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Malta: ≈ 2,387 EUR/month (gross, 2020), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of nurses alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Malta publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 35,394 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what nurses earn.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Malta.
- Recognition route
- Specialist (and General care) Nurse. General care nurse. General system of recognition - primary application. Non-EU-trained nurses submit the Council's required documents and complete a prescribed bridging course before the applicable registration; EU and third-country routes differ. Specialist Nurse.
- Recognition authority
- Council for Nurses and Midwives is the competent registration authority for nurses and midwives.
- Language requirement
- Non-EU-trained nurse route: IELTS Academic overall 6.0 or OET speaking B with C+ in other components; 2025 Council guidelines also list specified English/Maltese education, practice and test alternatives.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Malta: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
Compare this profession
See every country with a regulation or shortage-list record for nurse.
Compare nurse by countryCite this page
Open a format to select or copy this ImmigrationDB compilation citation. The native disclosure and text fallback work without JavaScript.
APA citation
ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Nurse in Malta: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 4cf1c2e6abc842eafd206b1a4c753f4e]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/malta/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_nurse-in-malta-salary-recognition-and-shortage-status_07ab7442f8cb,
author = {ImmigrationDB},
title = {Nurse in Malta: salary, recognition and shortage status},
publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-25},
version = {4cf1c2e6abc842eafd206b1a4c753f4e},
url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/malta/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}Markdown citation
[Nurse in Malta: salary, recognition and shortage status](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/malta/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 4cf1c2e6abc842eafd206b1a4c753f4e; retrieved 2026-10-25; built 2026-10-25.This citation identifies the ImmigrationDB compilation/page. Underlying source publishers and datasets retain their own terms; inspect the Sources section and cite those records separately. View the underlying source records.