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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some folks are fooled by those big centers. Are the workers that happy there with their minimum wages? I'd think not.[/quote]

I'm curious how much in home daycare assistants get paid. I think it's very low at my in home daycare, because I've been there only two months, and already two people out of the three assistants got replaced. I also think that this daycare doesn't pay a lot, because it seems everyone there is part time. The assistant in the morning is always different from the one in the evening and it's often different day to day. There was one assistant that I liked and I was impressed with her credentials (former teacher who was caring and warm) and of course she didn't stay even a month. It made me wonder if the pay was bad or whether the owner was a bad employer.   [/quote]

Having worked at both, in home and center, the pay is the same. It's usually 10 to 15 per hour. As far as being happy at working at a center, as a previous poster asked, I know that I am. There were no benefits at the home daycare. Benefits at the center, paid weather day, paid sick, paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, etc. The pay still sucks, I'm living pay check to pay check but honestly, I'm very happy. I love what I do. I try to have a smile on my face every day, from morning to pick up. You will occasionally have that rude parent that just dropped their child off before you and she was a straight bitch to us. Bad days happen but never does it compromise the care that your child recieves. It also helps that I can phone the director, have her or another teacher step in and I can get a "mental break." That never happened at a home daycare. I would choose a center over a home daycare for children.[/quote]

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