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ERIC Number: ED623494
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Mar
Pages: 2
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How Much Do Direct Support Professionals Make? Putting Wages in Context. Policy Research Brief. Volume 29, Number 1
Bershadsky, Julie, Ed.
Institute on Community Integration
This brief uses publicly available data from the National Core Indicators® (NCI)-IDD Staff Stability Survey to compare wages of direct support professionals (DSPs) to what people earn in other similar professions. It also puts them in context by comparing DSP wages to living wages--the cost of living based on typical expenses that meet minimum standards of living. Low wages are a major factor contributing to the DSP workforce crisis. This Brief shows that DSP wages have been consistently below wages of other comparable professions. It also shows that not only has the gap between living wages and DSP wages not gotten smaller in recent years, with the onset of the pandemic, it saw a jump. For a family with one working adult and one child (which makes up a large proportion of DSPs), the median gap went from being "$13.00 per hour below living wage in 2019 to $17.64 per hour below living wage in 2020." Such gaps between what people need to earn to live and what they actually earn are not sustainable.
Institute on Community Integration. University of Minnesota, 109 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Tel: 612-624-4512; Fax: 612-624-9344; e-mail: icipub@umn.edu; Web site: http://www.ici.umn.edu
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration
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