PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Day Care (21 July 2022)
Question Asked
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.
Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)
Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)
Answer
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.
Answered by:
Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative)
5 September 2022
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