A Career Ladder for Early Education and Out of School Time: A resource tool for the workforce

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A Career Ladder for Early Education and Out of
School Time A resource tool for the workforce
A Joint Initiative of EEC and BTWIC
Fiscal Committee Board of Early Education and
Care December 5, 2011

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Career Ladder Background

• EEC has long recognized the need for a career
  ladder to define professional growth in early
  education and out of school time and a ladders
  potential to remedy the inadequate compensation
  in our field.
• In 2010 and 2011, EEC and BTWIC partnered to
  implement this common goal.
• The resulting ladder from this collaboration
  built on excellent work previously created by the
  2008 Early Education and Care and
  Out-of-School-Time Workforce Development Task
  Force.

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Career Ladder Background

• In May 2011, the EEC Board endorsed the career
  ladder as a resource for programs and educators
  as they map and plan professional development for
  themselves and for staff.
• Programs are not required to use the career
  ladder.

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Salary Comparison Discussion

• Our goal is to
• Update the Committee on work on the Career Ladder
• Gain agreement on the gap in compensation, based
  on education
• Arrive at a set of guidelines that could help
• determine stipend amounts
• hold programs in compensation-related initiatives
  accountable
• advance the discussion on compensation
• All three

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Career Ladder and Compensation

• BTWICs primary intent was to help create a
  ladder and not to formally attach compensation to
  the ladder. However, BTWIC has offered to help
  the EEC with some preliminary work to explore the
  possibility of pricing the ladder.
• Looking at data from
• EECs Professional Qualifications (PQ) Registry
  (Aug. 2011)
• ? How much are early educators in Massachusetts
  making? (current salary)
• U.S. Census Bureaus American Community Survey
  (ACS) (2010)
• ? How much are adults in Massachusetts in all
  sectors making? (market salary)

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Comparison Salary Data

1. Center-based settings
2. Family child care settings
3. Out-of-school time settings
4. All three settings combined

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Center-Based Salary Data
(PQ Registry Categories Group Child Care, Head
Start, and Early Intervention)
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Center-Based Salary Data
Sources Massachusetts Department of Early
Education and Care, Professional Qualifications
Registry preliminary data, August 2011. U.S.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010
1-Year Estimates.
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Center-Based Salary Data

• PQ Registry Categories Excluded Public
  Preschools, Residential and Placement, Other,
  Family Child Care, School Aged Child Care
• The theoretical raise increases were calculated
  to show the amount that would be needed to bring
  an early educator to a salary level comparable
  with what his/her approximate market value would
  be in Massachusetts.
• Per hour raise increases were calculated based on
  2080 hours of work each year (40 hours of work
  per week).
• Per hour raise increases are not proposed
  amounts they are shown only for discussion
  purposes.

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Center-Based Salary Data
Example of one level (Novice)
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Family Child Care Salary Data
(PQ Registry Categories Family Child Care,
Family Child Care System)
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Family Child Care Salary Data
Sources Massachusetts Department of Early
Education and Care, Professional Qualifications
Registry preliminary data, August 2011. U.S.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010
1-Year Estimates.
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Family Child Care Salary Data
Example of one level (Novice)
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Out-of-School Time Salary Data
(PQ Registry Category School Age Child Care)
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Out-of-School Time Salary Data
Sources Massachusetts Department of Early
Education and Care, Professional Qualifications
Registry preliminary data, August 2011. U.S.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010
1-Year Estimates.
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Out-of-School Time Salary Data
Example of one level (Novice)
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All Settings, Salary Data
(PQ Registry Categories Group Child Care, Head
Start, Early Intervention, Family Child Care,
Family Child Care System, School Age Child Care)
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All Settings, Salary Data
Sources Massachusetts Department of Early
Education and Care, Professional Qualifications
Registry preliminary data, August 2011. U.S.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010
1-Year Estimates.
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All Settings, Salary Data
Example of one level (Novice)
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Considerations for the Career Ladder Model

• Differences in salary levels across three
  different sectors of the early education and care
  field (center-based, family child care,
  out-of-school time)
• Valuing years of experience, not only educational
  attainment
• Regional cost of living and salary differences

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Next Steps

• BTWIC to finalize data analysis, using updated
  data from the Professional Qualifications
  Registry
• EEC to undergo a formal discussion and
  decision-making process

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Thank you