Working as a teacher in Finland
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Finland: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Finland, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 6,035 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Teacher is a regulated profession in Finland. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 6,035 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Finland: ≈ 6,035 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.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Finland.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. Apply through EDUFI/Studyinfo with qualification documents. EDUFI assesses eligibility for the specific Finnish post; compensatory or supplementary study may be required.
- Recognition authority
- Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI) for foreign qualification decisions on covered teaching posts.
- Language requirement
- Language eligibility is tied to the specific teaching post and language of instruction; EDUFI recognition does not assess language and its guidance gives no one CEFR level for this combined target.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Teacher in Finland: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version b93a536136ced7b519f01bf560b64a84]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/finland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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