Working as a nurse in Portugal
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Portugal: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Portugal, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 1,452 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a nurse in Portugal on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 37,227 € a year (current). Nurse is a regulated profession in Portugal. Foreign qualifications go through: Specialist Nurse. In Portugal, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 1,452 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Specialist Nurse
- Shortage list
- Listed
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 37,227 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Portugal: ≈ 1,452 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.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Portugal publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 37,227 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what nurses earn.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Portugal.
- Recognition route
- Specialist Nurse. General care nurse. For the listed EU/EEA/Swiss regulated nurse route, apply to the sectoral competent authority for professional recognition before practice; recognition and professional registration are distinct steps and origin-specific routes differ.
- Recognition authority
- The relevant professional order is the Ordem dos Enfermeiros for registered nurse/midwife titles; other nursing-associate roles in this frozen family are not assumed to share the same registration route.
- Language requirement
- For the specified professional recognition route, the authority page lists Portuguese at C1 or submission to a linguistic-control procedure. This condition is not generalized to nursing associates, all applicant origins or every route.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Portugal: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Nurse in Portugal: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version deda9dcf027c91c2185178d1835e0309]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/portugal/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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