Working as a teacher in Cyprus
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Cyprus: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Cyprus, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 3,665 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a teacher in Cyprus on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 43,632 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Cyprus. Foreign qualifications go through: For public teaching, obtain KY.S.A.T.S. equivalence/correspondence of a foreign degree to the relevant Cyprus teacher degree, then file the Educational Service Commission appointment-table application with role-specific documents and language proof. Primary and secondary specialities follow separate service plans.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 3,665 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- For public teaching, obtain KY.S.A.T.S. equivalence/correspondence of a foreign degree to the relevant Cyprus teacher degree, then file the Educational Service Commission appointment-table application with role-specific documents and language proof. Primary and secondary specialities follow separate service plans.
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 43,632 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Cyprus: ≈ 3,665 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 teachers alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Cyprus publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 43,632 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what teachers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Cyprus.
- Recognition route
- For public teaching, obtain KY.S.A.T.S. equivalence/correspondence of a foreign degree to the relevant Cyprus teacher degree, then file the Educational Service Commission appointment-table application with role-specific documents and language proof. Primary and secondary specialities follow separate service plans.
- Recognition authority
- Educational Service Commission for public appointment tables; KY.S.A.T.S. for equivalence/correspondence of the foreign teaching degree.
- Language requirement
- Public primary/secondary teacher pages require very good Greek / Modern Greek at secondary-school level, and good English, French or German for the described public-school tracks. These labels are not stated as CEFR levels.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Teacher in Cyprus: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 41be69bac80187ed1490f5fc1913f02d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/cyprus/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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