Why childcare gets its own board
Type “teacher” into a big job site and a preschool opening lands between high school math posts, tutoring gigs and household nanny ads.
A small center hiring a toddler teacher has to outshout all of it, and a teacher who wants a center job has to dig.
Keeping this board to centers, preschools, Head Start grantees and school-age programs means every listing is the kind of job its readers came for.
Classroom jobs also come with rules a general board never mentions.
Each state sets its own minimums for staff age, education, background checks and yearly training hours, and federal Head Start standards add another layer for grantees.
The listings, pay pages and guides here are written with those rules in view.
The person behind it
Gabriel Meierotto
Founder, ChildcareHires
My name is Gabriel Meierotto. I built ChildcareHires, and I decide what goes on it.
To be clear up front: I have never taught in or directed a childcare program. I hold no CDA credential, no early childhood degree and no director credential.
My side of this is the hiring and publishing work: helping centers get openings seen, helping educators find them, and describing the jobs accurately.
When a page covers licensing rules, Head Start standards or pay, it is built from the agency or data source that publishes them, not from my opinion.
None of it replaces your state licensing agency or your program's own policies.
Where the openings come from
Centers and programs can post an opening here themselves.
We also gather jobs that employers publish on their own career sites and public job feeds; those listings send you to the original post, so your application goes to the center that is hiring.
A Featured post is paid placement: it carries a Featured badge and shows above standard posts on matching role and city pages.
Nothing else about the order is for sale, and no upgrade buys a fake ranking.
Our sourcing rules
Staff qualifications, ratios, training hours and pay are details people plan careers and budgets around, so a wrong one does real harm.
Every guide follows these rules:
- A state rule is cited to the agency or regulation that sets it, such as the state's childcare licensing rules or its early learning department.
- Pages that describe state requirements carry the date they were last checked.
- Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey (OEWS, May 2025 at present), and each table names the BLS occupation it uses, because BLS has no separate wage for titles like infant teacher or floater.
- Head Start rules are described as they stand today, with a note when a federal proposal would change them.
A page will only say an early childhood professional reviewed it when a named person really did.
There are no made-up reviewers or borrowed titles here.
Everything on the site is general career information.
For a ruling on your own qualifications or your center's licence, check with your state childcare licensing office.
Spotted an error?
Licensing rules get revised, BLS releases new wage data every spring and jobs get filled, so something here will eventually be out of date.
Email [email protected] with the link and the detail that seems off, and I will look into it and correct it.
Teachers and directors often know a rule change before any website does, so those notes are especially welcome.