Working as a nurse in Spain
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Spain: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Spain, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 2,264 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a nurse in Spain on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 41,356 € a year (current). Nurse is a regulated profession in Spain. Foreign qualifications go through: Specialist (and General care) Nurse. In Spain, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 2,264 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Specialist (and General care) Nurse
- Shortage list
- Listed
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 41,356 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Spain: ≈ 2,264 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
Spain publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 41,356 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what nurses earn.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Spain.
- Recognition route
- Specialist (and General care) Nurse. General care nurse. First identify the exact Spanish profession and country where the qualification was issued. Eligible EU/EEA listed titles use the applicable RD 581/2017 recognition route; third-country qualifications require the separate Spanish qualification-homologation route and any profession-specific registration or adaptation steps.
- Recognition authority
- For EU/EEA professional recognition, the competent health authority is the Ministry of Health; third-country degree homologation is a separate university-qualification route, and regional registration/collegiate requirements may also apply.
- Language requirement
- There is no single CEFR level that applies automatically to every applicant. For an RD 581/2017 health-profession recognition route, the competent authority may require proportionate Spanish and, where relevant, autonomous-community language competence; the Ministry of Health sets the patient-safety level.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Spain: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Nurse in Spain: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version f1c38441b48adf14b0aeca27511d5867]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/spain/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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