Compensation & Financial Relief Strategies

★ PRIORITY FOCUS AREA

Initiatives and investments to ensure compensation equal to the value of early educators’ work

Creating equitable conditions for the early care and education (ECE) workforce requires multiple, integrated strategies. The National ECE Workforce Center recognizes this need and organizes its work around five essential policy areas, or key topics, identified by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) Early Childhood Workforce Index as being critical for supporting the ECE workforce and higher-quality services for children and families. Each of these policy areas directly impacts the ECE workforce’s ability to thrive.  

For a deeper dive into the status of compensation and financial relief strategies, including state progress in this space, see the Early Childhood Workforce Index chapter on this topic, and for more resources to support your own efforts to improve access to compensation and financial relief strategies, see the section below.