Working as a teacher in Slovenia
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Slovenia: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Slovenia, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 3,834 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a teacher in Slovenia on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 30,432 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Slovenia. Foreign qualifications go through: Regulated school-teaching qualifications use the Ministry of Education recognition procedure; foreign education assessment alone is not a teaching licence. Exact route varies by school level, title and origin. In Slovenia, teachers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 3,834 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Regulated school-teaching qualifications use the Ministry of Education recognition procedure; foreign education assessment alone is not a teaching licence. Exact route varies by school level, title and origin.
- Shortage list
- Listed
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 30,432 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Slovenia: ≈ 3,834 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
Slovenia publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 30,432 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what teachers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Slovenia.
- Recognition route
- Regulated school-teaching qualifications use the Ministry of Education recognition procedure; foreign education assessment alone is not a teaching licence. Exact route varies by school level, title and origin. General system of recognition - primary application.
- Recognition authority
- Ministry of Education handles recognition for regulated education professions; the precise unit depends on school/teaching title.
- Language requirement
- A basic-school teacher must have perfect command of Standard Slovenian; education-recognition proceedings do not replace the language condition at first employment.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for teacher in Slovenia: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; 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 25). Teacher in Slovenia: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version d195be67a8ec5903e7b62a916ce690ea]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/slovenia/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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