EMPLOYEES’ FINANCIAL HEALTH
The childcare workforce earns, on average, around half the average hourly wage.
The average sector pay rate was £8.45 per hour in summer 2017, a 9 per cent increase on the rate from Ceeda’s 2014 survey.
DfE data on pay indicates there has actually been a decline – despite the advent of the National Living Wage (introduced in April 2016). In 2013, the DfE Childcare Provider Survey reported average hourly pay rates of £8.40 in full daycare settings. Its 2016 survey, which ran from March to July 2016, reported an average hourly rate of £8.30. Dr Jo Verrill, Ceeda’s managing director, said, however, that data is not presented in the same way across the two DfE reports.
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