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Peer reviewedRoseman, Marilyn J. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1999
Quality child care is related to the number of adequately prepared practitioners. Unfortunately, workers subsidize the cost of quality by working for substandard wages, few benefits, and little recognition. The need for adequate compensation is the most critical issue facing the profession, and the cost should be shared by all members of society.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care, Day Care Centers
Lombardi, Joan – Child Care Information Exchange, 1990
Discusses issues important to development of quality child care staff: salaries, working conditions, standards, and status. Discusses use of salary surveys, conferences, campaigns, organizations, and legislation to bring public attention to the compensation issue. Notes current research and future issues to be addressed. (SH)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Anthony, Mary Ann – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Presents characteristics of a good salary plan and identifies benefits of a job classification and wage scale system. Lists steps to follow to develop wage scale and job classification policies for a child care center. Includes a table relating proposed staff qualifications, staff responsibilities, and wage scales. (DLH)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Classification, Compensation (Remuneration)
Download full textMiller, Marna Geyer; Mayfield, Jim – 1994
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) subsidizes child care for about 30,000 children each month. In 1992, telephone interviews were conducted with 1,179 child care centers and 1,277 licensed family child care homes throughout the state. An estimated 140,000 children were in licensed care at that time. Three major…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Children, Costs
Curtis, Patrick A.; Laitin, Anna – 1998
This report details a study of trends in the salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other personnel at member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America. Responding to the study's mail survey were 377 out of 780 member agencies (48 percent return) and 327 out of 640 direct service CWLA agencies (51 percent return), including state…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Compensation (Remuneration)
Feagans, Laura – 2000
This report details a study of trends in the salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other personnel at member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). Responding to the study's mail survey were 437 out of 977 CEOs (44.7 percent) and 337 out of 825 CWLA member agencies (40.8 percent). The bulk of the report is comprised of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Compensation (Remuneration)
