TEFL jobs in Lithuania

Lithuania’s statutory minimum wage is €1,153 a month in 2026, set by Government Resolution No. 700 of 16 October 2025. Advertised teaching pay of €700 to €1,000 therefore sits below the full-time legal floor, which tells you most of it is part-time. Your Irish passport needs no visa and no work permit.

What Irish teachers should know first

Lithuania is an EU member state, so as an Irish citizen you have freedom of movement. No visa, no work permit, no sponsoring employer, no labour-market test. Almost every Lithuania teaching guide online is written for Americans or, post-Brexit, for Britons, and the immigration hurdles they spend pages on simply do not apply to you. That is the decisive difference, and it is worth being blunt about it before anything else.

The Migration Department sets out what does apply. An EU citizen intending to stay in Lithuania for more than three months in any half-year period must obtain a certificate confirming the temporary right of residence. The application goes through MIGRIS, the Lithuanian Migration Information System, and you then attend a Migration Department branch in person with your original documents and biometrics. You declare your place of residence either at the Migration Department when you apply, or at your local municipality within one month of collecting the certificate. Your Lithuanian personal code, the asmens kodas, is assigned in connection with that registration; as of September 2026 we could not source a standalone official page setting out the code process on its own, so confirm the exact step with the Migration Department at your appointment rather than relying on second-hand accounts.

Read the pay figures carefully, because they do not mean what they look like. The statutory minimum monthly wage for 2026 is €1,153, fixed by Government Resolution No. 700 of 16 October 2025. Our audited band for English teaching in Lithuania is €700 to €1,000 a month, which is below that floor from top to bottom. That is not a contradiction — it is the clearest signal in this guide. A lawful full-time contract in Lithuania must pay at least €1,153, so teaching figures below it almost always represent part-time timetables, hourly rates at private language schools or one-to-one tuition rather than a full-time salaried post. Ask any prospective employer directly how many contracted hours the quoted figure covers, and treat a full-time offer below €1,153 as a red flag.

Where does Lithuania sit in the Baltics?

The three Baltic states are Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Further south is Lithuania, and this is a fantastic destination for those wishing to experience teaching abroad. It can be a little more challenging to find work in Lithuania when compared to Estonia. Still, the benefits of living and working as an English teacher in Lithuania will outweigh any difficulties in finding a job. Lithuania is ideally placed to explore much of Europe as the Scandinavian countries sit to the north, Poland and Germany sit to the west and over to the east is Russia. Lithuania has a mix of cultures which makes it a very interesting place to stay. The country gained independence in 1990, having been taken into the Soviet Union by Moscow in 1940. Since it regained independence, the amount of immigrants and people moving to the area has increased, and the benefits of having skills in English were quickly recognised, leading to increasing demand for English teachers in Lithuania.

What will your students and daily life be like?

As an English teacher in Lithuania, you will be able to enjoy students from all over the world with multicultural backgrounds and take adventures into a diverse world. There are numerous benefits to living and working in Lithuania, and if you enjoy trying new foods, you will love their cuisine. The landscape and other buildings of note give you plenty to look at and create a fantastic skyline.

In this guide, we explore the qualifications that you will need in order to teach English in Lithuania, look at the best ways of applying and understand the visa application process. In addition, we look at the culture and the cost of living as well as any other useful information you need to know in order to become an English teacher in Lithuania.

For the wider view, read our main guide to teaching English abroad jobs. If you are choosing between the Baltics, compare teaching English in Estonia and teaching English in Latvia, where the statutory minimum wages are lower and the salary bands read very differently. To qualify before you apply, see our TEFL courses in Ireland.

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No obligation and no sales pitch. Tell us what you want out of the year and we will tell you honestly whether Lithuania fits.

Living costs in Lithuania are considered to be low, and even if you have a job teaching English in Lithuania with a lower-end salary, you should still find you have enough money to cover your living costs and live well. You should expect to spend around €500–€700 on living costs, including rent, bills and food. The cost of accommodation is low, and there is not much difference in price between the capital city and other locations. Some positions, particularly those at international schools, may well find that there is an accommodation benefit included in the salary package making things cheaper still. If you work with international schools, then you may be able to get accommodation benefits or allowance to reduce the amount spent on housing.

The salary for each role will vary, and also, you will find each contract brings different working hours. The highest paid roles will be those at international schools, but they also only employ those who have a degree and are often looking for experience and a teaching licence from your home country. In return, you will get the best package of benefits and also encourage to undertake professional development.

In Lithuania, there is full wifi access free to all. It has some of the fastest speeds anywhere in the world. You do not have to pay for internet access at home. Their native language is also the oldest living language in the world and is only spoken and understood by a few million people around the world.

In order to provide the most accurate cost of living figures, we use numbeo.com, the world’s largest cost of living database, updated regularly.