Notes: Salary schedule is defined as a scale with clearly differentiated salary increments based on qualifications and years of experience, which provides guidance for salary increases over time. There are strategies to improve pre-K compensation to achieve parity, however, in practice this is rare. For example, in San Antonio, Texas, see Lantigua-Williams, J. (2016, March 8). How San Antonio is Navigating the Tricky Politics of Pre-K. The Atlantic.
Chart: © 2020 Center for the Study of Child Care Employment Source: Whitebook, M., & McLean, C. (2017). Pursuit of Pre-K Parity: A Proposed Framework for Understanding and Advancing Policy and Practice. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California, Berkeley & The National Institute for Early Education Research.Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper