1. Improving ECE Workforce Compensation: What WE Must Do Marcy Whitebook, Ph.D. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment University of California, Berkeley www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce | facebook.com/CSCCEUCB | @CSCCEUCB Bay Area Early Childhood Funders February 12, 2016

2. Transforming the Workforce The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in California (2015)

3. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 (2015)

4. Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages (2014). Average Annual Salaries for U.S. Teachers with Bachelor’s Degrees or Higher, 2012 Absence of Rational Wage Structure + Low Value Accorded to Educational Attainment Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages (2014). Elementary School Teacher Kindergarten Teacher School- Sponsored Pre-K Teacher All Other ECE Teacher $56,130 $53,030 $42,848 $28,912

5. Not All Bachelor’s Degree Are Created Equal Median Annual Wages of College-Educated Workers in California, Selected Majors (2013) The Economic Value of College Majors, Georgetown University (2015)

6. Places with local minimum wage ordinances Local Minimum Wage Ordinances in the Bay Area Alameda County: 3 cities Contra Costa County: 2 cities Santa Clara county: 5 cities San Francisco:1 city 11 cities

7. State of the Early Childhood Workforce

8. Low Wages High Costs Limited Subsidy Low Wages High Costs Shaky Foundation Limited Subsidy

10. California Cost of Care $18,720 Annual Income 75%49% $42,216 Annual Income 33%22%20%25% One Minimum Wage Earner ($9/hour) Maximum Income to Qualify for Child Care Subsidy (CalWORKS) Full-time preschool care in center: $9,106 Full-time infant care in family child care home: $8,462 California R&R Network 14%13%51% $64,828 Annual Income 22% State Median Family Income HousingPreschooler in center All other family needs Infant/toddler in family child care home

11. Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages (2014). Abysmally Low Wages

12. Pervasive Economic Insecurity Among ECE Practitioners

13. Having enough FOOD for family Paying for routine HEALTH CARE costs for self and family Having enough to pay family’s MONTHLY BILLS Paying HOUSING costs Percentage of teaching staff in Santa Clara County expressing worry about... SEQUAL Santa Clara (2015)

15. Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages (2014). Pervasive Economic Insecurity Among ECE Practitioners

16. Pervasive Economic Insecurity Among ECE Practitioners in California California: 87,000 child care workers EITC Medicaid (Adults) Medicaid /CHIP (Children) Food Stamps All Programs Participation Rates 43%24%26%14%48% Program Costs (millions) 89.381.556.931.9274.9 Annual Program Participation Rates and Average Annual Program Costs in Public Support Programs for Child Care Workers Families

17. ECE Climate Change

18. Belief in the insolvability of the workforce wage problem Triple R: ECE’s Ridiculously Resilient Ridge

19. Prolonged Financial Malnutrition COST REVENUE

20. Preschool Investment California New York City $4,531/child $11,764/child 158,00068,000 Comparability

21. Addressing the ECE Drought START STOP INNOVATE

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