Care worker
What you will do
- Help residents with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating
- Watch their wellbeing and report changes
- Keep rooms tidy
- Work with nurses and families
You must have
- Caring and patient
- Ready for shift work
- [Estonian] at conversational level
Good to have
- A care worker vocational certificate
- First aid training
- How to apply
- [your link], by [date]
- Your answer
- Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
Job title Care worker Where [care home or facility name and address] Hours [Full time], shifts Pay [amount] to [amount] € a month before tax Contract [Permanent or fixed term], starting [date] What you will do • Help residents with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating • Watch their wellbeing and report changes • Keep rooms tidy • Work with nurses and families You must have • Caring and patient • Ready for shift work • [Estonian] at conversational level Good to have • A care worker vocational certificate • First aid training How to apply [your link], by [date] Your answer Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
How these figures are made
Estonia
- Care workers in health and care institutions (ISCO 5321)
- average 1,719 €, median 1,714 €
- Home care workers (ISCO 5322)
- average 1,270 €, median 1,297 €
Full-time equivalent gross monthly pay by workplace, all of Estonia. The median is the pay that half the people in the group earn more than and half less. Source Statistics Estonia's pay app, checked on 1 October 2026. The usual range is the middle half of people in the group, the 25th to the 75th percentile, estimated from Statistics Estonia's pay bands of 500 €.
What the job pays in other countries
It pays most in Denmark, about 3.3 times the Estonian median, though the Danish figure includes pension. If you send workers abroad or hire from there, this is the comparison that matters.
| Country | Median | Usual range | In euros a month | Occupation group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EstoniaQ2 2026 | 1,714 € | 1,397–1,991 € | 1,714 € | Care workers in health and care institutions (5321) |
| Finland2024 | 3,222 € | not published | 3,222 € | Health care assistants (5321) |
| Sweden2025 | 33,500 SEK | 31,200–36,200 SEK | ≈ 2,967 € | Assistant nurses, home care and homes for the elderly (5321, closest group) |
| Norway2025 | 50,780 NOK | 45,250–53,930 NOK | ≈ 4,688 € | Health care assistants (5321) |
| Denmark2025 | 41,697 DKK | 36,999–47,681 DKK | ≈ 5,579 € | Health care assistants (5321) |
| Germany2025 | 3,335 € | 2,989–3,731 € | 3,335 € | Occupations in geriatric care (without specialisation) – unskilled/semiskilled tasks (82101) |
| United Kingdom2025 | 29,084 GBP a year | 25,189–33,294 GBP a year | ≈ 2,850 € | Nursing auxiliaries and assistants (6131) |
Median pay for full-time work from each country's official source: Statistics Estonia, Statistics Finland, Statistics Sweden, Statistics Norway, Statistics Denmark, Federal Employment Agency, Office for National Statistics. The sources count slightly differently. Denmark's figure includes pension, Germany's holiday and Christmas pay, and the United Kingdom publishes a year's pay, divided by twelve here for the monthly comparison. Jobs are grouped by ISCO-08. Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom have their own classifications, matched to it, and "closest group" marks a group that is near, not the same. Where a country counts fewer than 2,000 people in a job's first group and more in its second, the second is used. The usual range is the middle half of people in the job, the 25th to the 75th percentile. Finland publishes only the 10th and 90th, so it has none. In euros at the European Central Bank rate of 2 October 2026, 1 € = 11.29 SEK, 1 € = 10.83 NOK, 1 € = 7.47 DKK and 1 € = 0.85 GBP. These figures describe the market, not the minimum a collective agreement sets.