Working as a plumber in Luxembourg
What official sources say about working as a plumber in Luxembourg: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Luxembourg, the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers", which includes plumbers, earns ≈ 4,587 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a plumber in Luxembourg on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 65,652 € a year (current). Plumber is a regulated profession in Luxembourg. Foreign qualifications go through: Where plumbing work falls within the List A heating-sanitary installation craft, the independent craft manager needs a permit and an activity-specific qualification. The source does not establish that all ISCO 7126 work is the same legal title.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers"
- ≈ 4,587 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Where plumbing work falls within the List A heating-sanitary installation craft, the independent craft manager needs a permit and an activity-specific qualification. The source does not establish that all ISCO 7126 work is the same legal title.
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 65,652 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers" in Luxembourg: ≈ 4,587 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 plumbers alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Luxembourg publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 65,652 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what plumbers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Plumber is a regulated profession in Luxembourg.
- Recognition route
- Where plumbing work falls within the List A heating-sanitary installation craft, the independent craft manager needs a permit and an activity-specific qualification. The source does not establish that all ISCO 7126 work is the same legal title.
- Recognition authority
- The Ministry of the Economy is the permit authority for the named List A heating-sanitary-refrigeration installer craft activity; the checked source does not assign all frozen plumber jobs to that title.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Plumber in Luxembourg: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version b3ba650325754d506aa7cd966326696b]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/plumber/luxembourg/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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