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The Wages of Child Care
September 4, 2007
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.
-Loris Malaguzzi
-Loris Malaguzzi
As we all know, the pay that early childhood professionals receive is the major challenge of our profession. Early childhood professionals work as hard as anyone and their labors make a huge contribution not only to our economy, but also to the well being and social awareness of future generations. Yet their paychecks reflect little of this value to society. In recent years we have been tracking fees that centers charge to parents and wages they pay to staff members. Alarmingly, our fees have not risen as fast as the cost of living, and accordingly, our wages remain low and may actually be heading in the wrong direction.
To see if any progress has been made in the past two years, we are once again conducting an Exchange Insta-Poll on child care wages in North America. We encourage you to help make this poll as accurate as possible by providing your center’s wage information (anonymously, of course). Then, over the course of the coming days, go to our home page and see how your wages stack up. To participate, go to http://secure.ccie.com/survey/index.php?survey_id=113
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Not only are wages low. There are very few child care centers that offer benefits such as medical insurance and retirement plans. This is unfortunate, and leads to a large turn over in this field that so desperately needs committed teachers. I have remained in child care the past ten years, and am one of the few fortunate who work in a county school program that does offer insurance and retirement. Child care organizations such as this one can help try and band together child care teachers/workers to petition for not only decent living wages, but also benefits for our families and ourselves. Perhaps then, turnover in this field will not be so high.
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