Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 2/16/2007 8:43:00 AM Author: Barbara Subject: Wage Review Where are you located? I think the area has a lot to do with wages. We are in South Central Pennsylvania. Also, what are your rates for each age group? We are in an area where child care is just starting to be recognized as a profession, but we can not pay the kind of wages in your scale. I would love to be able to do that, but our tuition would be so high that parents would not be able to afford it and would either sent their children to an unlicensed home or let them go home alone. We start at $6.50 for a aide, $7.25 for an assistant until they complete New Staff Orientation and $9.25 for a teacher. At the annual review, the board decides on the percentage of increase based on the review. Have you checked into health insurance? We are paying almost $575 a month per employee with the enployee paying 25% with payroll deductions. We pay for training and the hours of training, but it does not amount to $1500 per person. We could not afford that. You must be in a wealthy area where parent can afford to pay high tuitions. Your plan/pay scale sounds good to me, but undoable in our area. Name: Email: Subject

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