Kindergarten teacher
What you will do
- Plan and lead learning and play
- Follow each child's development and report to the parents
- Make the group a safe and playful place
- Work with colleagues and support specialists
You must have
- A degree and teaching competences
- [Estonian] at C1
- A valid health certificate
Good to have
- Experience with the [method] method
- Experience with children with special needs
- How to apply
- [your link], by [date]
- Your answer
- Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
Job title Kindergarten teacher Where [town or address], on site Hours Full time, Monday to Friday Pay [amount] to [amount] € a month before tax Contract [Permanent or fixed term], starting [date] What you will do • Plan and lead learning and play • Follow each child's development and report to the parents • Make the group a safe and playful place • Work with colleagues and support specialists You must have • A degree and teaching competences • [Estonian] at C1 • A valid health certificate Good to have • Experience with the [method] method • Experience with children with special needs How to apply [your link], by [date] Your answer Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
How these figures are made
Estonia
- Early childhood educators (ISCO 2342)
- average 1,974 €, median 1,950 €
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 3.0 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 | 1,950 € | 1,652–2,278 € | 1,950 € | Early childhood educators (2342) |
| Finland2024 | 3,231 € | not published | 3,231 € | Early childhood educators (2342) |
| Sweden2025 | 37,800 SEK | 35,200–40,500 SEK | ≈ 3,348 € | Preschool teachers (2343) |
| Norway2025 | 53,600 NOK | 48,150–55,830 NOK | ≈ 4,949 € | Early childhood teachers (2342) |
| Denmark2025 | 43,571 DKK | 40,100–48,699 DKK | ≈ 5,830 € | Early childhood educators (2342) |
| Germany2025 | 4,314 € | 3,842–4,848 € | 4,314 € | Occupations in child care and child-rearing – complex tasks (83113) |
| United Kingdom2025 | 37,593 GBP a year | not published | ≈ 3,684 € | Nursery education teaching professionals (2315) |
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.