BERKELEY, CA —Child care sector employment continues to see an uptick, adding 3,900 jobs in March. Nonetheless, three years after the onset of the pandemic, child care employment recovery continues to stall behind U.S. jobs as a whole, according to analysis by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at Berkeley.
Employment is 5.4% below what it was in February 2020. Today’s release is based on the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report.
-56,500k
Child care jobs lost since Feb 2020
94.6%
Percentage of child care jobs today compared to Feb 2020
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*More details on the data source:
- Data Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2022). Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey.
- Current month’s jobs numbers are a preliminary estimate by BLS. Our figures include BLS adjustments to previous months and thus may differ from earlier Jobs Tracker Figures. These estimates include employees in the “child day care services” industry, which includes child care, Head Start, preschool and school-age care programs. The estimates include employees only and do not include self-employed workers, such as owners of home-based child care figures published by CSCCE.
- These estimates include employees in the “child day care services” industry, which includes child care, Head Start, preschool and school-age care programs. The estimates include employees only and do not include self-employed workers, such as owners of home-based child care.
- This employment data cannot be disaggregated by education, race/ethnicity, role, setting, or funding stream.