Working as a teacher in Austria
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Austria: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Austria, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 4,184 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a teacher in Austria on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 55,678 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Austria. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 4,184 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 55,678 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Austria: ≈ 4,184 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 teachers alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Austria publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 55,678 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what teachers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Austria.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. Route varies by school type and origin; third-country qualification may require nostrification at a matching PH/university.
- Recognition authority
- Competent PH/university or other office for exact school type and qualification origin.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Teacher in Austria: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 19806da824014b6c29999588e426c1b3]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/austria/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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