Working as a nurse in Slovakia
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Slovakia: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Slovakia, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 1,440 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Nurse is a regulated profession in Slovakia. Foreign qualifications go through: Apply to CRD for recognition of the exact nurse or midwife professional qualification. EU sectoral automatic recognition applies only to eligible harmonized nurse/midwife credentials; third-country route may require formal recognition, a Slovak supplementary examination, then professional recognition. In Slovakia, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 1,440 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Apply to CRD for recognition of the exact nurse or midwife professional qualification. EU sectoral automatic recognition applies only to eligible harmonized nurse/midwife credentials; third-country route may require formal recognition, a Slovak supplementary examination, then professional recognition.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Slovakia: ≈ 1,440 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 Slovakia.
- Recognition route
- Apply to CRD for recognition of the exact nurse or midwife professional qualification. EU sectoral automatic recognition applies only to eligible harmonized nurse/midwife credentials; third-country route may require formal recognition, a Slovak supplementary examination, then professional recognition. General care nurse.
- Recognition authority
- Ministry of Education Centre for Recognition of Diplomas (CRD) for professional-qualification recognition; health registration follows under the applicable nursing title.
- Language requirement
- For eligible nurse/midwife titles, EU sectoral automatic recognition may apply to harmonized evidence. For third-country recognition, a supplementary examination can be written, oral or practical and is held in Slovak; the reviewed authority pages do not set one universal CEFR test level.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Slovakia: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Slovakia: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 5feff7c50d4cb433547d9a7e191fc5f8]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/slovakia/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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