Vent On Daycare Teacher Wages!

[cheerfuldom]

Just saw an ad for an established facility hiring teachers. The pay is $8.50 per hour and they require a degree. Why would you go to college to be paid $8.50 an hour post graduation? Thats just plain crazy.

[daycare]

Just saw an ad for an established facility hiring teachers. The pay is $8.50 per hour and they require a degree. Why would you go to college to be paid $8.50 an hour post graduation? Thats just plain crazy.

IDK....my sister is a teacher at charter school in Oregon. She also has a PHD and two masters Degrees. She makes $9.00 an hour and has ZERO benefits..

Nuts if you ask me and when I ask her why. She said she loves being a teacher and that pays more than money?????????????

I hate loaning her money all the time....

[Snapdragon]

Speaking from experience, I earned much more as an executive assistant than I do as a daycare director now, but in terms of job satisfaction, it's 100 percent worth it! Having said that, with the economy the way it is, it would be easier for our family if I went back to what I did before, but as long as we can keep our heads above water, I'll keep doing what I love.

[melskids]

It's the same thing here....lead teachers get 9.00/hr and directors with master degree's only get $12.

[Sunchimes]

And they say that we don't value our children in this country.

[cheerfuldom]

$12 an hour for a master's degree? thats just plain outrageous. you really do have to have a passion for working with kids to stay at it long term while getting paid peanuts

[Heidi]

$12 an hour for a master's degree? thats just plain outrageous. you really do have to have a passion for working with kids to stay at it long term while getting paid peanuts

well, we're taking care of the little peanuts, why shouldn't we get paid peanuts?

[mrsp'slilpeeps]

$12 an hour for a master's degree? thats just plain outrageous. you really do have to have a passion for working with kids to stay at it long term while getting paid peanuts

WOW $12 an hour? Here in Alberta, we get paid $12.35 an hour to start, just to be a cashier at Tim Hortons.

That is just insane.

[SunshineMama]

The priorities in this country are all screwed up.

We should pay the people who care for children and shape the future a lot more than what is currently paid. In some other countries, mothers are granted a year off after baby (paid), with job security, before having to return to work. Imagine what something like that might do for our country- parents can actually have the opportunity to parent.

At the very least, they might appreciate what we do more! I have a family who is gone 3 months out of the year and dad watches them (his business is seasonal). They are the nicest, most appreciative family I have, and always very empathetic and thankful. Why? Because they know how difficult their little peanuts are sometimes, and they get it. I love that family!

I read somewhere online that there are thousands of janitors in our country with PHD's.... smh...

[Country Kids]

I have a friend that has worked for 17/18 years as an EAI for our school district and after taxes, insurance she brings home about $1000.00 a month! This is the job I would like to do after childcare but I would actually make much less than that because she is actually at the top of the pay chart!

[Zoe]

Before I started my own in-home daycare, I applied to a daycare center as a lead teacher. The pay was $10 an hour, but I have 2 small children so I needed them to be in daycare, and the center wouldn't take them! Said it was a conflict of interest (which I get, but still) and if I took the job, I'd end up paying more than my paycheck to put them in daycare! Doesn't really make sense does it?!

[Sunchimes]

The whole thing baffles me. They talk about how important early childhood is to the health and well-being of children. Every move we make is regulated, even the food we feed them is regulated to the ounce because early diet is so important. Early reading, early this early that, they are all so vital. Then we are paid less than the guy who flips the burgers that we really can't afford because we are so poorly paid.

[Childminder]

Figure out how many hours you work and divide into your actual income. My guess is you make less than that. Mine averaged less than minimum wage last year.

I have a friend that graduated with her teaching degree in elem ed and went to work for a private christian school and made $4.50 per hour. This was in the late 90s. Don't know how they get away with it and the men make 3 times that upon hire in. Sexist to say the least.

My daughter-in-luv makes $12 per hour with a degree in microbiology working for the Toledo Zoo as a zookeeper. She doesn't do it for the money. Obviously. none of us do.

[mrsking14]

It is crazy how underpaid daycare teachers are! I have a CDA and even after getting that, having more college education (no degree) and working for the same company for 4 years... when I left I was making under $9! Seriously?!!

[cheerfuldom]

Childminder....I know I make less than that but the difference is that I take care of my own 3 kids too. It is not a big deal to get licensed here and just a half dozen kids and you would make more than a full time teacher that has to take care of a dozen or more in a class.