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Table 2 Comparison of Center-based a Early Childhood Staff and Other Workers

From: Early Childhood Teacher Policy in the United States: Continuing Issues, Overcoming Barriers, and Envisioning the Future

  

Center-based teachers and administrators

Center-based teachers with a college degree or higher

All workers, all industries

Female college graduates

Wage/hr

Year 1984

$8.37

$9.76

$12.26

$15.14

 

2003

$10.00

$13.35

$13.66

$19.23

Workers with employer-provided health insurance coverage

 

28%

33%

57%

66%

Workers with a pension plan

 

15%

21%

46%

61%

Share of workers below 200% of the poverty line

 

26%

31%

19%

7%

  1. Note. From Herzenberg, Price, & Bradley (2005).
  2. a This figure does not include teachers in public schools.