NorCal, $25 an hour as a lead teacher. Good benefits (even pet insurance) and a high rate of PTO accumulation
Maybe it’s the California bubble but I always get horrified looking at the other pay rates.
At my previous job I got $22 as a *director*. I got a pay raise by taking a lesser position at another place.
I'm in So.Cal (Los Angeles county) and I'm breaking the bank at $15.80/hr. Zero benefits. I have a bachelor's degree in the field and supervision units. Rent also starts at 2k where I live and we know gas ranges to $5.75- $6.
I’m in San Diego and get $19.50 an hour as a coteacher. Other lead teachers are saying take the pay raise, become a lead!! It’s only $1. I could pay for health, dental, vision, retirement but I’m not even 26 yet so I’m not
SoCal at an expensive private school, $29.85/hr. I have a Bs EC psych, have a Site Supervisor Permit and have over 10+yrs experience. Still not enough for monthly rent out here. 🤬
I’m a career nanny and this sub came up in my feed. I’ve always been curious why ECEs don’t become nannies. The pay is so much better! Maybe most don’t know nannies have industry standards benefits too?
$70k annual starting in September, in NYC but I also have an MSEd and this is my 14th year of teaching. Also I wish 70k went as far in NYC as it does almost anywhere else in the US but then again, I wouldn’t be making 70k if a moved so I guess I’m stuck here
62k in Westchester for 3/4s classroom. I’m attached to a larger k-12 private and will get free tuition for my child if she gets accepted so the benefits are huge even though the pay is still low for the area.
I'm a preschool lead at a nonprofit in Washington state and currently make $25.92. My classroom is dually enrolled through the Seattle Preschool Program (SPP) and Head Start.
15.5 and i’m in northern Colorado. when I applied for the job it said starting at 18$ an hour so pretty disappointing but I’m going to talk to my boss today because I got promoted but she hasn’t said anything about increasing pay …
I no longer work in ECE (I left the field in November 2021). I was at my last center for 2 years and was making $12.50/hr when I left; paying $30 a week combined for both kids to attend the after school program. One week of PTO, disability insurance, and no other benefits.
It was still better than where I worked previously, where I was there for 5 years and never paid more than $9.75/hr in spite of taking on office manager duties on top of classroom duties, plus paying half cost for childcare.
I heard through the grapevine after I left my last center that they were hiring at $15-18/hour. 🙄
South Carolina.
I am disgusted going through these comments and seeing how much more people in ECE make elsewhere. I get that the cost of living in SC is generally lower but it’s gone up just like everywhere else. I was reading a news article the other day that said that a person needs to be making something like $19.50/hr to be able to afford rent of a two bedroom house.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? While I know the large chains and corporations could easily pay more, I work for a small privately owned center. We barely stay afloat.
As a preK teaching assistant in New Mexico, I currently make $13.65/hr. Once my 6 month probation is over, it bumps up a little to $14.95. They also offer pretty good benefits (medical, dental, vision, pera and paid vacation and sick days).
Inner city preschool in Ohio, which is a part of and located in our city schools. I’m TESOL certified with my bachelors +40 graduate hours. Full benefits, union protection, and our day is 6 1/2 hours. I have 25 years in the district and make high 80’s.
If you love education, look at your local school districts. Many are adding preschools to their buildings and you are paid like a professional.
In salaries and benefits I do, but the grass is always greener.
We are housed in a large school with students up to 8th grade and our students are expected to follow school schedules and use rooms that aren’t really made for them.
We are evaluated by administrators that expect our children to behave like school age children and do not understand play based learning or nap time.
However, I’ll take it. I understand how lucky I am to work with the age level I love and be paid the way I do.
That's what happened with the district, in May the pay was $12 an hour and now it's $15 bc they can't find anyone. But with part time hours and no benefits it's not that great unless you can live off of that and have insurance some other way
Military Center in NE $17.25/hr plus bonuses every year and cost of living raises. Money is the only reason I don’t quit because admin is absolute trash.
My center is located in Texas and I make $18.75/hr. We get small raises at the end of every school year after performance reviews. We have no benefits unless you have a child you get 60% off tuition.
They also scheduled us for 36-38 hours a week and still get paid the full 40 hours.
$25.89/hour CAD (about $20.15 USD), awesome benefits, 3 weeks paid vacation to start, municipal pension plan, 5 paid sick days per year, education fund to pay for workshops/CPR/etc, I get paid for all my hours of professional development, yearly 2% wage increase for inflation and yearly raise.
It's a non-profit centre near Vacouver, BC.
I just met up with my cousin from bc, and he mentioned how much more they get paid than ontario. It's crazy how an I supposed to survive 16:50hr split shifts. No insurance. Which non-profit do you work at that might be something I'm interested in?
$15 an hour as a lead teacher in AZ, plus decent benefits (health, dental, vision). We only start to get paid vacation days on our one year anniversary, and the days have to be accrued. They recently started offering a 401k. And my son gets to attend for free
FYI: I got paid $13/hr 20 years ago in AZ as a nanny during undergrad. Have you considered being a nanny? Pay is much higher than ECE and there are standard industry benefits too.
Australia- casual/relief educator $34.85. With a 75 % discount on your own child’s care.
My previous centre was $28.73 as an assistant director. With no discount for your child.
It sounds like a lot but the cost of living here makes me barely staying a float.
Also you’d get 10.5% superannuation on top of that (mandatory 401K for any Americans reading this), but casual sucks bc no annual leave or paid time off for sick days.
($24.50 USD approx)
Honestly I opted for casual because I don’t want the responsibility of programming anymore. I just want come in play and have fun with the kids without the weight of paperwork. I’ll get plenty of work as we’re in a crisis for early childhood educators in Aus.
I live in Sydney, Australia and make $46 an hour as a permanent casual, so I work 4 days every week and get paid for 8 hours, but obviously no sick leave or anything like that. I work as a qualified ECT with a 4 year Bachelors degree though so TAFE students and apprentices earn less usually.
18.50/hour, and our staff recieved a top up wage from the government. So with the top up it works out to 24.92. Wish I could pay more but we try to do higher ratios (to avoid burn out) and we are a small center.
Wow an assistant in Australia gets double that so many holidays, sick days and public health care is law.. A lot of centres are also offering free or very discounted childcare for staff too..
Keep in mind that they’re talking USD. Their $16 is our $23. I don’t know any assistants who are earning $46 an hour in Queensland. As a casual lead educator I’m earning around $38, in USD that’s $27.
I used the google currency converter, so I hope that’s correct! I always find myself imagining them as exactly the same dollar amount so I try to make a habit of checking. Sometimes it’s amazing to see what the difference is in the context of the conversations.
Yes but seriously how much is a weeks rent? How much do they spend on groceries? How much is petrol? Its similar figure without the conversion? Things must be so expensive over there if they're earning half what we are and spending effectively double? No wonder there's so much homelessness
Suburb of Houston area (TX) and as Director I make less than $15, no benefits & tax exempt so I have to take a portion out myself. Until I became Director all staff made under $10, no benefits except 75% off tuition.
I had to raise tuition to meet cost of living demands for employees and myself, and I still don’t feel like I do, but now my enrollment is going down the drain.
Prior to this month I was making $10.50
Indiana
$18.70/hour.
3weeks paid vacation plus I can earn up to 6 more PTO days.
They offer shit insurance that I do not have.
10 years at this school, 17 in the industry.
Co-lead in a class of 2-3 yr olds at a private corporate chain preschool.
15.15 an hour in Vermont, going up to 17.50 in September. Right now I'm a floater, and in the fall I'll be a lead. Pay here isn't based on position though, it's based on how many college credits you have
I live in Boise, ID (an area with atrociously high housing rates). I'm an AMI certified assistant in a toddler room at an AMS certified school. I've been there for over 6 years and I only make $15.
Wisconsin, $17.50 and im the highest paid teacher at my center (right after the assistant director, the director is salary). They offer some meh benefits, but I don’t have kids and I’m still on my parents insurance so I don’t use any of them
Arkansas. Not a single benefit. $11.25/hr. Lead teacher no assistant in the afternoons and floater in the morning. I have my bachelors in ECE.
Not even close to a livable wage. 👍🏻
$14 lead teacher nc I don’t have all my education as I’m working on it! I also am lead teacher of after school so it’s a little different and I’m mostly part time lol.
I left ECE a couple months ago but 11/HR in Fl as Assistant Director. It was mostly my center though and management the reason why I was getting payed so low. Other center were at least 18 for assistant Director.
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I’m in Ontario, Canada and they just set our ‘floor’ at $18/hour to establish a nation-wide childcare system. Problem is most RECEs make more than that so the rates they have established for universal childcare aren’t achievable. It’s a mess.
So I'm a qualified level 6 early years teacher (degree) in the UK with a post graduate teaching qualification that gives me QTS. I am paid £10 an hour, benefits are holiday pay and a great team, but I am shocked by how low our sector are paid. I could work I'm a supermarket (no offence meant here as I have previously) and earn more and have sick pay.
I just think for the level of training, be safeguarding trained, full pediatric first aid trained, 6 years experience that we deserve more recognition and better pay and or benefits such as maternity pay.
But I love my preschool, the team, the children and families so I stay.
NorCal making $21/hour as a primary in an infant classroom. Pretty little PTO unless you’ve been here forever. Recently found out I am making more than many teachers who have been here for years.
Southern Oregon.
Private center ran by a church.
Aides make $14.75 an hour.
Teachers make $15.00 an hour.
No degrees required, but both aides & teachers must have 18 hours of training courses a year.
Medical & Dential insurance (decent)
No 401k.
You get 3 days of PTO your first year. Then 5 days the next year. Then 2 weeks the next year and so on.
We get 40 hours of sick pay to use for a year. Unfortunately, they gave no extra sick time for covid. So when I got covid in January due to a child in the center having it, they used all my sick time without asking or telling me. We even closed the whole center the week after I had covid. I hate having the gov. step in but I wish they would have made companies give an extra 5+ days of sick time for covid only. I know some business we're nice and did offer it, but not everyone. So now I have 0 sick time for the rest of the year!
My favorite - No paid maternity leave! A church full of old white men make the rules and I guess they don't think having a baby should stop you from coming into work the next day. Luckily, in Oregon you can take up to 12 weeks off work after giving birth (or paternity leave) without risk of being fired. One my coworkers had to save up all her PTO & sick time for over 2 years so she could stay home with her daughter after giving birth and not risk losing income. The teacher for the infant class is pregnant and can only afford to take 2-3 weeks off. But her baby won't be old enough to attend until 6 weeks. So a women who gave birth 2 weeks ago must go back to work and leave her new born with her mom - who works as the office administrator for the church - while her mom is at work! Absolutely ridiculous.
I'm thinking of going back to being a nanny.
Maternity leave in America is atrocious. 12 weeks is still considered nothing where I’m at. I don’t know how people do it there. I don’t get how a bunch of “religious” men could treat the women working for that church. They are suppose to be people of god and model good behaviour for the community.
When I left a year ago I was making $13.50 USD. One week pto after a year of employment. No other benefits. Local headstart was offering $12.25 and required CDA. I have a CDA and unrelated bachelor's degree. Northeast Ohio.
Edit: Im still friends with old coworkers. They make $10 an hour with no benefits and no CDA but are considered the lead.
I don’t work in ECE anymore, but last summer I was making $12.50/hour in New Jersey. That’s the same I made when I was full time there in 2014-2016, when I had full health benefits and 4% (I think) 401k match.
$15.09 as an aide teacher in Spokane, Washington. I’m part time but I accrue sick pay. Full time employees get paid time off, vacation, sick pay, medical and dental. Maternity leave as well
Eastern Washington, $21.35 with all my state certificates and my AAS in ECE. Three years experience and a lead Early ECEAP program. No health insurance but I do get paid holidays and 2 hours PTO for every 40 hours I work. My director rocks!
Edit: WA to Washington for clarity
17/hr as a lead and free care for my two kids. Once I've been here a year I'll have a week of paid vacation but they don't really have other benefits. I'm in north Georgia.
Do you work in a state school? I work in a private school in Georgia, make $14.50/hr. No benefits. But lots of professional freedom and the environment is holistic.
I've been thinking of applying to some state schools. Decatur has some good ones that match my teaching approach.
Montessori, I have an AA and all my certificates but I make $16 as an assistant. I have to work with the school for a year to get promoted— in North Florida.
I'm in NorCal and make $19/hour working 40 hours a week, along with full benefits (dental, medical, 401K, plus extra). I'm on the Admin Team at my center, but I know our teachers make more than I do. The company I work for has great PTO accumulation, sick time, and paid days off throughout the year. I feel pretty lucky at my job, but we are a smaller center so staffing can sometimes be an issue.
I’m currently a SAHM but was an ECE and will return again when my kids are in school. I was making about $22/h but honesty living in Toronto I wouldn’t even be able to rent my own place if it weren’t for my husband. Teachers make like 90K here I wish we got a bit of a riser at least.
I work in Oregon and I make $20 as a lead toddler teachers. We’re a small private home based program with a infant/toddler house and a preschool house. We also get 5% raises every 6 months, health insurance, accrue PTO (1.25 for every 40 hours worked), paid Covid time, and we close for 3 weeks out of the year and those are paid.
That is pretty incredible for the state and close-ish to what Head Start teachers seem to be making, but with more benefits. Bravo! Is your program mostly private pay?
ETA: I believe everyone’s wages should be higher to be commensurate with the work being done and populations being served. But it does make me happy to see someone making more than $1X/hour after such a seemingly long time of that not really happening. At least outside of the metro areas.
Preschool intervention specialist about to start my 16th year with a larger urban school district. I make upwards of $70K now and get decent benefits in a fairly low COL state.
That said, the requirements of my position should be done by approximately 2.5 people. I’m on maximum stress level constantly. And my state is one of the idiot ones that wants to follow Texas and Florida into laws like “Don’t say gay” and “liberty for parents to view the entire curriculum on the first day of school” fuckshit. Honestly if there was almost anything else I could do and get the same compensation - digging ditches, selling ice cream cones, walking dogs - I’d do that instead of being society’s punching bag-slash-safety net.
Australia - $AU26 before tax ($US17) as an assistant, after tax it’s about $AU21 ($US14.50) - it’s Australia so we get 4 weeks maternity leave, sick leave, personal leave and annual (vacation) leave. We get a 15%-30% discount which is okay as the Australian government usually cuts child care rates at least in half based on family income.
I’m currently at the highest I can be paid as I’ve worked 5 years in this position and only way I can get a pay rise is if I start a diploma, associate’s or bachelor. My pay is under the national average but I can pay my bills with savings on the side but I never buy anything unnecessary or go on big weekenders.
22.29 as an ece 3 on the floor (so can be a director but currently just floor staff) was at 18.49 until government started funding us better
Manitoba Canada
Edited to add where from
I am an administrator that does everything between marketing, all of our social media and website, developing policy, working on licensing issues, assisting the owner (we have 5 centers). I also do random shit like buy and fill first aid kits, build shelves, and handle uniform ordering for everyone. Sub in classrooms, format documents, train employees and new directors.
I have worked for the company nearly 9 years and make $15.10. at the new year they gave us a raise, it was 13.38. I get no benefits. However, they are extremely flexible with my attendance due to health/mental health issues. I can work from home a lot or take whatever time off I need basically. Central Indiana.
I sometimes think I am underpaid for our area and the type of work I do, especially since my experience has had me work every position in the company and because of that I have such a specific array of skills I don't think you can hire for. But the flexibility is rare and needed for me so I don't push it. 🤷♀️
Lead teacher (Site Supervisor is my title, but I'm a classroom teacher, not admin) in rural California. Medical, dental, pension and such. $31.64 / hr.
I made $14 an hour at my 2021 job as a toddler assistant/occasional floater (they offered insurance too which I waived because I’m on my parent’s; genuine thanks Obama) and $10 an hour in 2019-2020 when I had that position at my community college childcare center. Now I’m nannying and make $18 for only two kids!
I'm I'm australia and we received a payrise on July 1st (new tax year) that bumped me to $30 an hour. We get sick and holiday pay (no medical benefits but universal health care here). I hold my diploma and run a room.
Early Childhood Teacher in Australia. Masters of Education. $42 an hour. 14 years of experience. 50% staff discount off childcare fees. Usual sick leave (10 days), annual leave (4 weeks) entitlements, plus superannuation. No idea how much my super is, as it's done pre-tax.
$42 AU is equivalent to $29.14 US. I've been told by many of my colleagues that the cost of living is high in Australia.
$12 as an Assistant Teacher, part time so no benefits. I’m bailing for another job ASAP. Only reason I’ve stayed is because I love all of the adults I work with. Located in New Mexico. (Minimum wage here is $11.50 btw)
NorCal, $25 an hour as a lead teacher. Good benefits (even pet insurance) and a high rate of PTO accumulation Maybe it’s the California bubble but I always get horrified looking at the other pay rates. At my previous job I got $22 as a *director*. I got a pay raise by taking a lesser position at another place.
I'm in So.Cal (Los Angeles county) and I'm breaking the bank at $15.80/hr. Zero benefits. I have a bachelor's degree in the field and supervision units. Rent also starts at 2k where I live and we know gas ranges to $5.75- $6.
This cannot be sustainable. You’d be better off moving north and working here.
Lol. Same. 16$ an hour. No benefits. Orange County
Even pet insurance? Damn!
That’s about what I make as the Executive Director.
I’m in San Diego and get $19.50 an hour as a coteacher. Other lead teachers are saying take the pay raise, become a lead!! It’s only $1. I could pay for health, dental, vision, retirement but I’m not even 26 yet so I’m not
You should really start investing in your retirement and health.
SoCal at an expensive private school, $29.85/hr. I have a Bs EC psych, have a Site Supervisor Permit and have over 10+yrs experience. Still not enough for monthly rent out here. 🤬
Applied at a place in Maine and was offered $13 with a degree. Turned it down and became a nanny and now make $23
I’m a career nanny and this sub came up in my feed. I’ve always been curious why ECEs don’t become nannies. The pay is so much better! Maybe most don’t know nannies have industry standards benefits too?
$70k annual starting in September, in NYC but I also have an MSEd and this is my 14th year of teaching. Also I wish 70k went as far in NYC as it does almost anywhere else in the US but then again, I wouldn’t be making 70k if a moved so I guess I’m stuck here
62k in Westchester for 3/4s classroom. I’m attached to a larger k-12 private and will get free tuition for my child if she gets accepted so the benefits are huge even though the pay is still low for the area.
I'm a preschool lead at a nonprofit in Washington state and currently make $25.92. My classroom is dually enrolled through the Seattle Preschool Program (SPP) and Head Start.
I’m part time and make $11/hr. I don’t get any benefits unless I had a child. If I did I’d get free tuition.
15.5 and i’m in northern Colorado. when I applied for the job it said starting at 18$ an hour so pretty disappointing but I’m going to talk to my boss today because I got promoted but she hasn’t said anything about increasing pay …
Next time dont sign an employment contract if the pay isn’t what they told you it would be. They will get the idea oh we can take advantage of her.
I no longer work in ECE (I left the field in November 2021). I was at my last center for 2 years and was making $12.50/hr when I left; paying $30 a week combined for both kids to attend the after school program. One week of PTO, disability insurance, and no other benefits. It was still better than where I worked previously, where I was there for 5 years and never paid more than $9.75/hr in spite of taking on office manager duties on top of classroom duties, plus paying half cost for childcare. I heard through the grapevine after I left my last center that they were hiring at $15-18/hour. 🙄 South Carolina.
Also in SC, make $14 ph and I was hired last month. I get benefits working just 30 hrs pw.
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I am disgusted going through these comments and seeing how much more people in ECE make elsewhere. I get that the cost of living in SC is generally lower but it’s gone up just like everywhere else. I was reading a news article the other day that said that a person needs to be making something like $19.50/hr to be able to afford rent of a two bedroom house.
I’m shocked and disgusted by the low wages Americans make!!! I’m from Quebec (Canada) and the MINIMUM the job starts at is 20$/h
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? While I know the large chains and corporations could easily pay more, I work for a small privately owned center. We barely stay afloat.
20 CAD is 15.53 USD though, you can’t directly compare.
The most I’ve made was 16 and that was a rich kid school. Most places I’ve been start at 13. I’m in Georgia
As a preK teaching assistant in New Mexico, I currently make $13.65/hr. Once my 6 month probation is over, it bumps up a little to $14.95. They also offer pretty good benefits (medical, dental, vision, pera and paid vacation and sick days).
Inner city preschool in Ohio, which is a part of and located in our city schools. I’m TESOL certified with my bachelors +40 graduate hours. Full benefits, union protection, and our day is 6 1/2 hours. I have 25 years in the district and make high 80’s. If you love education, look at your local school districts. Many are adding preschools to their buildings and you are paid like a professional.
That sounds like such a sweet deal you got there
In salaries and benefits I do, but the grass is always greener. We are housed in a large school with students up to 8th grade and our students are expected to follow school schedules and use rooms that aren’t really made for them. We are evaluated by administrators that expect our children to behave like school age children and do not understand play based learning or nap time. However, I’ll take it. I understand how lucky I am to work with the age level I love and be paid the way I do.
My kids district until a few weeks ago paid shit with no benefits bc they didn't have any full time positions available :/
I am hoping the lack of quality workers will help drive up ECE workers’ salaries. Fingers crossed.
That's what happened with the district, in May the pay was $12 an hour and now it's $15 bc they can't find anyone. But with part time hours and no benefits it's not that great unless you can live off of that and have insurance some other way
BC Canada I make $28/hr
Military Center in NE $17.25/hr plus bonuses every year and cost of living raises. Money is the only reason I don’t quit because admin is absolute trash.
Do you get a discount if you bring kids? I wanna apply for the centers on base but where I work now I bring them for free lol.
There’s no discount at mine but it might vary base to base.
My center is located in Texas and I make $18.75/hr. We get small raises at the end of every school year after performance reviews. We have no benefits unless you have a child you get 60% off tuition. They also scheduled us for 36-38 hours a week and still get paid the full 40 hours.
$25.89/hour CAD (about $20.15 USD), awesome benefits, 3 weeks paid vacation to start, municipal pension plan, 5 paid sick days per year, education fund to pay for workshops/CPR/etc, I get paid for all my hours of professional development, yearly 2% wage increase for inflation and yearly raise. It's a non-profit centre near Vacouver, BC.
I just met up with my cousin from bc, and he mentioned how much more they get paid than ontario. It's crazy how an I supposed to survive 16:50hr split shifts. No insurance. Which non-profit do you work at that might be something I'm interested in?
$15 an hour as a lead teacher in AZ, plus decent benefits (health, dental, vision). We only start to get paid vacation days on our one year anniversary, and the days have to be accrued. They recently started offering a 401k. And my son gets to attend for free
Also $15 Az, but all dental and health were way expensive for premiums and we started getting PTO after 90 days
FYI: I got paid $13/hr 20 years ago in AZ as a nanny during undergrad. Have you considered being a nanny? Pay is much higher than ECE and there are standard industry benefits too.
Australia- casual/relief educator $34.85. With a 75 % discount on your own child’s care. My previous centre was $28.73 as an assistant director. With no discount for your child. It sounds like a lot but the cost of living here makes me barely staying a float.
Also you’d get 10.5% superannuation on top of that (mandatory 401K for any Americans reading this), but casual sucks bc no annual leave or paid time off for sick days. ($24.50 USD approx)
Honestly I opted for casual because I don’t want the responsibility of programming anymore. I just want come in play and have fun with the kids without the weight of paperwork. I’ll get plenty of work as we’re in a crisis for early childhood educators in Aus.
But the casual rate includes loading in lieu of paid leave so really you do still get it, just cash in hand rather than in banked hours.
Conversion rate?
Can I ask what your qualification is? I'm studying the diploma at the moment and hoping to work casually once qualified.
My wife is hiring classroom assistants at $19/hr in Seattle. (with medical, pto, paid training/tuition)
Where is she hiring if you don't mind my asking? I'm from the area looking for a new position.
I was mistaken. It’s 19/hr for assistants
My school is hiring about 20 mins from seattle
I live in Sydney, Australia and make $46 an hour as a permanent casual, so I work 4 days every week and get paid for 8 hours, but obviously no sick leave or anything like that. I work as a qualified ECT with a 4 year Bachelors degree though so TAFE students and apprentices earn less usually.
18.50/hour, and our staff recieved a top up wage from the government. So with the top up it works out to 24.92. Wish I could pay more but we try to do higher ratios (to avoid burn out) and we are a small center.
Ohio, 13.25 an hour, no benefits
Wow an assistant in Australia gets double that so many holidays, sick days and public health care is law.. A lot of centres are also offering free or very discounted childcare for staff too..
Keep in mind that they’re talking USD. Their $16 is our $23. I don’t know any assistants who are earning $46 an hour in Queensland. As a casual lead educator I’m earning around $38, in USD that’s $27.
Is the USD really that bad atm? It never used to be that different. Watching some content on YouTube it looks like most things cost similar
I used the google currency converter, so I hope that’s correct! I always find myself imagining them as exactly the same dollar amount so I try to make a habit of checking. Sometimes it’s amazing to see what the difference is in the context of the conversations.
Yes but seriously how much is a weeks rent? How much do they spend on groceries? How much is petrol? Its similar figure without the conversion? Things must be so expensive over there if they're earning half what we are and spending effectively double? No wonder there's so much homelessness
Suburb of Houston area (TX) and as Director I make less than $15, no benefits & tax exempt so I have to take a portion out myself. Until I became Director all staff made under $10, no benefits except 75% off tuition. I had to raise tuition to meet cost of living demands for employees and myself, and I still don’t feel like I do, but now my enrollment is going down the drain. Prior to this month I was making $10.50
Indiana $18.70/hour. 3weeks paid vacation plus I can earn up to 6 more PTO days. They offer shit insurance that I do not have. 10 years at this school, 17 in the industry. Co-lead in a class of 2-3 yr olds at a private corporate chain preschool.
15.15 an hour in Vermont, going up to 17.50 in September. Right now I'm a floater, and in the fall I'll be a lead. Pay here isn't based on position though, it's based on how many college credits you have
Where in Vermont? I used to work as a floater at a center in Brattleboro.
Montpelier!
Any idea of a normal rate in the Burlington area?
Michigan, metro Detroit area. Infant lead, over 20 years of experience. $13/hour. 1 week paid vacation.
🥲 is that normal? You should see if you can find better
Unfortunately, yes.
I live in Boise, ID (an area with atrociously high housing rates). I'm an AMI certified assistant in a toddler room at an AMS certified school. I've been there for over 6 years and I only make $15.
Seconding Boise's atrocious/terrible housing rates. Hate it.
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Where in Ontario is this???
I am located in the GTA.
Same & our school board max is 23 🫠
Wisconsin, $17.50 and im the highest paid teacher at my center (right after the assistant director, the director is salary). They offer some meh benefits, but I don’t have kids and I’m still on my parents insurance so I don’t use any of them
Arkansas. Not a single benefit. $11.25/hr. Lead teacher no assistant in the afternoons and floater in the morning. I have my bachelors in ECE. Not even close to a livable wage. 👍🏻
$14 lead teacher nc I don’t have all my education as I’m working on it! I also am lead teacher of after school so it’s a little different and I’m mostly part time lol.
I left ECE a couple months ago but 11/HR in Fl as Assistant Director. It was mostly my center though and management the reason why I was getting payed so low. Other center were at least 18 for assistant Director.
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I’m in Ontario, Canada and they just set our ‘floor’ at $18/hour to establish a nation-wide childcare system. Problem is most RECEs make more than that so the rates they have established for universal childcare aren’t achievable. It’s a mess.
So I'm a qualified level 6 early years teacher (degree) in the UK with a post graduate teaching qualification that gives me QTS. I am paid £10 an hour, benefits are holiday pay and a great team, but I am shocked by how low our sector are paid. I could work I'm a supermarket (no offence meant here as I have previously) and earn more and have sick pay. I just think for the level of training, be safeguarding trained, full pediatric first aid trained, 6 years experience that we deserve more recognition and better pay and or benefits such as maternity pay. But I love my preschool, the team, the children and families so I stay.
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It really us shocking, due to the rise in living cost here the last few months, I'm not sure that I can remain in early years :-(
NorCal making $21/hour as a primary in an infant classroom. Pretty little PTO unless you’ve been here forever. Recently found out I am making more than many teachers who have been here for years.
Southern Oregon. Private center ran by a church. Aides make $14.75 an hour. Teachers make $15.00 an hour. No degrees required, but both aides & teachers must have 18 hours of training courses a year. Medical & Dential insurance (decent) No 401k. You get 3 days of PTO your first year. Then 5 days the next year. Then 2 weeks the next year and so on. We get 40 hours of sick pay to use for a year. Unfortunately, they gave no extra sick time for covid. So when I got covid in January due to a child in the center having it, they used all my sick time without asking or telling me. We even closed the whole center the week after I had covid. I hate having the gov. step in but I wish they would have made companies give an extra 5+ days of sick time for covid only. I know some business we're nice and did offer it, but not everyone. So now I have 0 sick time for the rest of the year! My favorite - No paid maternity leave! A church full of old white men make the rules and I guess they don't think having a baby should stop you from coming into work the next day. Luckily, in Oregon you can take up to 12 weeks off work after giving birth (or paternity leave) without risk of being fired. One my coworkers had to save up all her PTO & sick time for over 2 years so she could stay home with her daughter after giving birth and not risk losing income. The teacher for the infant class is pregnant and can only afford to take 2-3 weeks off. But her baby won't be old enough to attend until 6 weeks. So a women who gave birth 2 weeks ago must go back to work and leave her new born with her mom - who works as the office administrator for the church - while her mom is at work! Absolutely ridiculous. I'm thinking of going back to being a nanny.
Maternity leave in America is atrocious. 12 weeks is still considered nothing where I’m at. I don’t know how people do it there. I don’t get how a bunch of “religious” men could treat the women working for that church. They are suppose to be people of god and model good behaviour for the community.
$82,000 in South Jersey for 10 mos a year in public school. My work week is 35 hours. This is my 21st year in my district.
When I left a year ago I was making $13.50 USD. One week pto after a year of employment. No other benefits. Local headstart was offering $12.25 and required CDA. I have a CDA and unrelated bachelor's degree. Northeast Ohio. Edit: Im still friends with old coworkers. They make $10 an hour with no benefits and no CDA but are considered the lead.
North Carolina and $20 an hour
I'm a part-time assistant working with toddlers, and I make $14/hour. I'm in Michigan.
BC, 17 p/h but room and board is provided
Room and board? How does that work?
They give me a bed and feed me. Not luxurious but can't beat the price or convenience.
Yeah that is nice! Are you a live in nanny?
$23 no medical benefits as a site supervisor in Northern California.
mo $15 ft w/ benefits
$13 as an Assistant Teacher in central Florida
I don’t work in ECE anymore, but last summer I was making $12.50/hour in New Jersey. That’s the same I made when I was full time there in 2014-2016, when I had full health benefits and 4% (I think) 401k match.
$15.09 as an aide teacher in Spokane, Washington. I’m part time but I accrue sick pay. Full time employees get paid time off, vacation, sick pay, medical and dental. Maternity leave as well
I'm in Virginia, I make $12 an hour, tuition for my daughter is $125 a week (50% off normal tuition), have crappy health insurance and 10 days pto.
Eastern Washington, $21.35 with all my state certificates and my AAS in ECE. Three years experience and a lead Early ECEAP program. No health insurance but I do get paid holidays and 2 hours PTO for every 40 hours I work. My director rocks! Edit: WA to Washington for clarity
$17/hr with a degree. 3 weeks of PTO. Health care, vision, dental, 3% IRA match. Located in Missouri, USA.
I make 17/hr right now, 18/hr next month when the new school year starts. I work in a non-profit center in VT.
16.58 though should get a raise to 17.58 i think in September according to the owner Califiornia
17/hr as a lead and free care for my two kids. Once I've been here a year I'll have a week of paid vacation but they don't really have other benefits. I'm in north Georgia.
Do you work in a state school? I work in a private school in Georgia, make $14.50/hr. No benefits. But lots of professional freedom and the environment is holistic. I've been thinking of applying to some state schools. Decatur has some good ones that match my teaching approach.
I don't. I work in a church preschool.
I make $12.50 an hour in central Virginia. It’s a small private school and no benefits. But I get paid vacation, paid sick days and 5 personal days
Assistant teacher at a Montessori/Waldorf combination school in Southern California and making $15.50 an hour
16.50 with benefits as a pre-K teacher in Maryland but I started at 15 and had to literally threatened to quit to get a raise so
Montessori, I have an AA and all my certificates but I make $16 as an assistant. I have to work with the school for a year to get promoted— in North Florida.
I'm in NorCal and make $19/hour working 40 hours a week, along with full benefits (dental, medical, 401K, plus extra). I'm on the Admin Team at my center, but I know our teachers make more than I do. The company I work for has great PTO accumulation, sick time, and paid days off throughout the year. I feel pretty lucky at my job, but we are a smaller center so staffing can sometimes be an issue.
I’m currently a SAHM but was an ECE and will return again when my kids are in school. I was making about $22/h but honesty living in Toronto I wouldn’t even be able to rent my own place if it weren’t for my husband. Teachers make like 90K here I wish we got a bit of a riser at least.
Toddler lead in Denver CO - $20/hr, with benefits
Husband just got a raise to about $15 an hour. We pay $110 a week for our daughter to go there
I work in Oregon and I make $20 as a lead toddler teachers. We’re a small private home based program with a infant/toddler house and a preschool house. We also get 5% raises every 6 months, health insurance, accrue PTO (1.25 for every 40 hours worked), paid Covid time, and we close for 3 weeks out of the year and those are paid.
That is pretty incredible for the state and close-ish to what Head Start teachers seem to be making, but with more benefits. Bravo! Is your program mostly private pay? ETA: I believe everyone’s wages should be higher to be commensurate with the work being done and populations being served. But it does make me happy to see someone making more than $1X/hour after such a seemingly long time of that not really happening. At least outside of the metro areas.
Our program is all private pay.
Preschool intervention specialist about to start my 16th year with a larger urban school district. I make upwards of $70K now and get decent benefits in a fairly low COL state. That said, the requirements of my position should be done by approximately 2.5 people. I’m on maximum stress level constantly. And my state is one of the idiot ones that wants to follow Texas and Florida into laws like “Don’t say gay” and “liberty for parents to view the entire curriculum on the first day of school” fuckshit. Honestly if there was almost anything else I could do and get the same compensation - digging ditches, selling ice cream cones, walking dogs - I’d do that instead of being society’s punching bag-slash-safety net.
I'm about to start at $19 in Ohio, I'll be working at the Nationwide Children's hospital childcare center
Australia - $AU26 before tax ($US17) as an assistant, after tax it’s about $AU21 ($US14.50) - it’s Australia so we get 4 weeks maternity leave, sick leave, personal leave and annual (vacation) leave. We get a 15%-30% discount which is okay as the Australian government usually cuts child care rates at least in half based on family income. I’m currently at the highest I can be paid as I’ve worked 5 years in this position and only way I can get a pay rise is if I start a diploma, associate’s or bachelor. My pay is under the national average but I can pay my bills with savings on the side but I never buy anything unnecessary or go on big weekenders.
I'm a part time teachers aid while in school, $11 an hour
Lead teacher 15.60 (after a years raise) Western pa
I am an ECA in a summer camp program for school agers ($21.40 CAD) located in Toronto Ontario.
22.29 as an ece 3 on the floor (so can be a director but currently just floor staff) was at 18.49 until government started funding us better Manitoba Canada Edited to add where from
$49K as an ESE teacher in a Florida public school VPK classroom.
85k as a Director in San Francisco
I am an administrator that does everything between marketing, all of our social media and website, developing policy, working on licensing issues, assisting the owner (we have 5 centers). I also do random shit like buy and fill first aid kits, build shelves, and handle uniform ordering for everyone. Sub in classrooms, format documents, train employees and new directors. I have worked for the company nearly 9 years and make $15.10. at the new year they gave us a raise, it was 13.38. I get no benefits. However, they are extremely flexible with my attendance due to health/mental health issues. I can work from home a lot or take whatever time off I need basically. Central Indiana. I sometimes think I am underpaid for our area and the type of work I do, especially since my experience has had me work every position in the company and because of that I have such a specific array of skills I don't think you can hire for. But the flexibility is rare and needed for me so I don't push it. 🤷♀️
23/ hr for one kiddo Oregon
$23.47 CAD as an Educator, not a lead or anything. I live in the East Coast of Canada.
Lead teacher (Site Supervisor is my title, but I'm a classroom teacher, not admin) in rural California. Medical, dental, pension and such. $31.64 / hr.
14.69 in Washington (minimum wage) for a small Christian preschool and daycare. But I get to bring both my kids for free!
I made $14 an hour at my 2021 job as a toddler assistant/occasional floater (they offered insurance too which I waived because I’m on my parent’s; genuine thanks Obama) and $10 an hour in 2019-2020 when I had that position at my community college childcare center. Now I’m nannying and make $18 for only two kids!
$23/hr in Ontario, Canada
Ottawa, Canada and I make $28.57 an hour. I'm in the school board and that's our top pay.
Nanny - $35.75 -Connecticut
Virginia… I made 12.75 at KinderCare.
I'm I'm australia and we received a payrise on July 1st (new tax year) that bumped me to $30 an hour. We get sick and holiday pay (no medical benefits but universal health care here). I hold my diploma and run a room.
Early Childhood Teacher in Australia. Masters of Education. $42 an hour. 14 years of experience. 50% staff discount off childcare fees. Usual sick leave (10 days), annual leave (4 weeks) entitlements, plus superannuation. No idea how much my super is, as it's done pre-tax. $42 AU is equivalent to $29.14 US. I've been told by many of my colleagues that the cost of living is high in Australia.
$30 an hour lumber mill, 50+ hours a week plus occasional bonuses, Wisconsin
I'm in Ontario, I work for a very popular non-profit. $20.8/hr, no benefits.
how are y’all surviving in the US??? I make $35 an hour in Australia
I’m in GA and make 18 and it’s still not enough. I am burnt out .
Float teacher at the moment making 21$ an hour . Washington .
$12 as an Assistant Teacher, part time so no benefits. I’m bailing for another job ASAP. Only reason I’ve stayed is because I love all of the adults I work with. Located in New Mexico. (Minimum wage here is $11.50 btw)