The true cost of child care that meets base-quality licensing standards and high-quality standards

State-by-state estimated annual child care costs

Note: Base-quality scenarios use default data from www.costofchildcare.org representing a program meeting state licensing regulations. The high-quality scenario includes all quality variables available in the interactive model. All values are rounded to the nearest hundred.

Table: Center for American Progress Source: Author's analysis based on Center for American Progress, "Cost of Child Care," available at www.costofchildcare.org (last accessed June 2021).