EU Blue Card Salary Requirements Per Country 2022
Looking for the latest salary requirements to apply for the EU Blue Card in 2022? While many countries have reduced their Blue Card minimums from 1.5X the minimum salary to 1.2X the average national wage for in-demand roles and industries, much of the information on this published online is presently outdated (even on official EU sites). While the below numbers are broadly accurate as of 2021, a number of them may have changed in the time since.
Discover the minimum Blue Card salary requirements for each of the participating countries in the EU, per month and per year, below…
DATA SOURCE: www.ec.europa.eu
The Blue Card Salary Requirements Per Country For 2022 are as follows:
COUNTRY | Minimum Blue Card Salary Requirement Per Year | Minimum Blue Card Salary Requirement Per Month | ||
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Austria | €66,593 | €5,549 | ||
Belgium | €57,019 (Brussels, 2022); €54,115 (Flanders 2022); €57,019 (Wallonia 2022) | €4,752; €4,510; €4,752 | ||
Bulgaria | €10,326 | €861 | ||
Czechia | €27,120 | € 2,260 | ||
Denmark | N/A | N/A | ||
Germany | €56,400, or €43,992 for employees in the fields of mathematics, IT, natural sciences, engineering and medicine (2022). | €4,700; €3,666 | ||
Estonia | €26,064 (non-shortage occupations); €21,720 (shortage occupations) | € 2,172; 1,810 | ||
Ireland | N/A | N/A | ||
Greece | €30,675 | €2,556 | ||
Spain | €33,908 | €2,826 | ||
France | €53,836 | €4,486 | ||
Croatia | €19,338 | €1,612 | ||
Italy | €26,000 | € 2,167 | ||
Cyprus | N/A | N/A | ||
Latvia | €20,580 | €1,715 | ||
Lithuania | €23,160 | € 1,930 | ||
Luxembourg | €83,628 | € 6,969 | ||
Hungary | €20,091 | €1,674 | ||
Malta | €16,036 | € 1,336 | ||
Netherlands | €68,040 | € 5,760 | ||
Poland | €20,240 | € 1,687 | ||
Portugal | €24,535 | € 2,045 | ||
Romania | €27,000 | €2,250 | ||
Slovenia | €28,006 | €2,334 | ||
Slovakia | €11,628 | € 969 | ||
Finland | €59,148 | € 4,929 | ||
Sweden | €53,200 | € 4,433 | ||
Iceland | N/A | N/A | ||
Liechtenstein | N/A | N/A | ||
Norway | N/A | N/A | ||
Switzerland | N/A | N/A |