Working as a teacher in Lithuania
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Lithuania: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Lithuania, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 2,637 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Teacher is a regulated profession in Lithuania. Foreign qualifications go through: Submit the application, qualification evidence and required supporting records with certified Lithuanian translations; the Ministry may seek evidence from other authorities. In Lithuania, teachers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 2,637 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Submit the application, qualification evidence and required supporting records with certified Lithuanian translations; the Ministry may seek evidence from other authorities.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Lithuania: ≈ 2,637 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 Lithuania.
- Recognition route
- Submit the application, qualification evidence and required supporting records with certified Lithuanian translations; the Ministry may seek evidence from other authorities.
- Recognition authority
- The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport recognizes the listed school-teacher professional qualifications for the stated EU/EEA/Swiss and third-country routes.
- Language requirement
- For the named school-teacher and education posts, the official-language requirement is category 2 or 3, depending on the regulated post; the authority does not express this as a CEFR level on the page.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for teacher in Lithuania: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Teacher in Lithuania: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 2c058abfebd044ad4aa1c7490bccd010]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/lithuania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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