Occupation / job
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
A $59,300 midpoint puts Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare $9,280 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 19% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.
73,660 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare is still a distinguishing thing to have.
These posts suit people who can hold responsibility for an operation and its people at the same time, in organisations small enough that both land on one desk.
We carry no verified training length for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $47,040 and a quarter above $75,500: a 1.6x ratio, $28,460 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
At $47,040, or $22.61 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $2,980 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
Avoid it if you would find it hard to manage people you used to work beside as an equal.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 73,660 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $47,040 and $75,500 this is a normally shaped occupation. $59,300 is what the middle of Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
The middle half of this field earns between $47,040 and $75,500. That is $28,460 of range, with $59,300 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $75,500. Reaching it from the $59,300 midpoint is $16,200 a year; reaching it from the $47,040 that the bottom quarter of Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare earn is $28,460.
From $59,300 it is $12,260 down to the bottom quarter and $16,200 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare is $28.50 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.61 and $36.29, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $59,300 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare, the hourly figure is $59,300 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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