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What would a preschool teacher earn in a home daycare?

by Gail

Apr 10, 2011

Hi there

What would you expect to earn working as a preschool teacher in a home daycare?

Thanks for your input.

Gail

Schari Of course it would depend where you are located. But my experience has been that a home provider will struggle to pay an employee even 2 or 3 dollars above minimum wage.

Home Child Care has a limit as to how many children can be there at any one time, so the provider can only take in so much money. And usually if she increases her enrollm...See More

Apr 13, 2011

question I wasn't sure whether the OP meant to ask about being an employee in someone eles's home day care, or running her own day care business in her home. I would think that running your own home day care business could be a decent income (depending on whether you had the maximum allowable number of kids) and if you had a spouse that worked and had healt...See More

Apr 24, 2011

Schari You could be right about OP's original question. I jumped to the conclusion that she was thinking about working for somebody else.

I don't know about centers income as I haven't directly asked my friends that have them. But my impression is that it is tight. They have so many expenses with employees, trainings, building costs and maintenan...See MoreYou could be right about OP's original question. I jumped to the conclusion that she was thinking about working for somebody else.

I don't know about centers income as I haven't directly asked my friends that have them. But my impression is that it is tight. They have so many expenses with employees, trainings, building costs and maintenance, building insurance, accident insurance, building taxes, utilities, food, paper goods, art supplies, toys, etc, etc, etc.

Somebody else on here might be able to enlighten us.

For myself in my home child care, if I'm making $10.00 profit an hour, I consider that pretty good. Won't get rich off of it, but it pays the bills with some left over for savings.

On 4/24/11, question wrote: > I wasn't sure whether the OP meant to ask about being an > employee in someone eles's home day care, or running her own day > care business in her home. I would think that running your own > home day care business could be a decent income (depending on > whether you had the maximum allowable number of kids) and if you > had a spouse that worked and had health insurance, etc. > > What I have wondered is how profitable the for-profit day care > centers are. How profitable are they? Couldn't they afford to > pay the employees better than they do? Or provide health > insurance? I know they can only charge the parents so much, but > couldn't they make less profits and pay the employees better? > Just askin. In this economy I am grateful to even have a job but > the thought has occurred to me that if this center were a co-op > or nonprofit of some sort, we probably would be getting paid > more. Any thoughts from the chatboard? > > > > On 4/13/11, Schari wrote: >> Of course it would depend where you are located. But my >> experience has been that a home provider will struggle to pay >> an employee even 2 or 3 dollars above minimum wage. >> >> Home Child Care has a limit as to how many children can be >> there at any one time, so the provider can only take in so >> much money. And usually if she increases her enrollment when >> she hires an employee, it still isn't enough to pay the >> employee a good wage unless the provider cuts her own salary. >> >> If the employee works less than full-time, there is more of a >> chance to make a higher wage per hour, as the home provider >> is not paying that wage for every hour she is open, just for >> a few hours. >> >> Hope that makes sense. >> >> >> >> 4/10/11, Gail wrote: >>> Hi there >>> >>> What would you expect to earn working as a preschool >>> teacher in a home daycare? >>> >>> Thanks for your input. >>> >>> Gail

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