Working as a teacher in Malta
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Malta: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Malta, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020). To work as a teacher in Malta on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 35,394 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Malta. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 35,394 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Malta: ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020), 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
Malta publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 35,394 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what teachers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Malta.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. A permanent teacher warrant requires the specified degree and teaching qualification; foreign qualifications need MFHEA comparability at the stated level.
- Recognition authority
- Council for the Teaching Profession administers teacher warrants.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Teacher in Malta: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version e67ade825886667912b6b5633662e5df]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/malta/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Teacher in Malta: salary and recognition},
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