Children: Day Care
(asked on 21st July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate the Government has made of the average hourly wage for staff in the childcare sector.
According to survey estimates, the mean hourly pay (calculated as gross weekly earnings divided by contracted weekly work hours) for people working in the early years sector in 2021 was as follows, by provider type:
Early years provider type | Mean hourly pay (2021) |
All providers | £12.50 |
All providers except childminders | £12.94 |
Private providers | £11.94 |
Voluntary providers | £11.58 |
Nursery classes | £18.78 |
Maintained nursery schools | £19.38 |
Childminders | £8.23 |
Source: Table 12, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/providers-finances-survey-of-childcare-and-ey-providers-2021.