Our research found no published pay rate for Childtime teachers.
The brand belongs to Learning Care Group, whose careers page lists benefits — a 50% child care discount from your start date, paid wellness days, DailyPay and a fully funded CDA program — but no wage rates when we read it in October 2026.
That makes the rate on a current posting or an offer letter the one that counts.
Here is what is public, and how to price a real offer.
Typical Childtime pay by role: what's actually published
Childtime Learning Centers is one of the brands of Learning Care Group — the same parent company behind La Petite Academy, Tutor Time, The Children's Courtyard, Everbrook Academy, Montessori Unlimited and Creative Kids Learning Center.
The parent carries a careers page for its brands, and the page we read in October 2026 lists team-member benefits but no wage rates.
Our research found no employer-posted hourly pay for Learning Care Group, Childtime, La Petite Academy or Tutor Time teachers, so we have no published Childtime rate to quote for any classroom role.
What exists instead is the federal benchmark for the occupations center classrooms hire, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics release:
- Childcare workers (SOC 39-9011) — the category for aides and assistants, with O*NET-reported job titles including Daycare Teacher and Daycare Worker — earned a national median of $16.82 per hour, or $34,980 a year. The 10th percentile earned $11.66 and the 90th $22.12.
- In child care services (NAICS 6244), childcare workers earned a median of $16.43 per hour — $34,170 a year.
- Preschool teachers except special education (SOC 25-2011) — the category whose O*NET-reported titles include Pre-Kindergarten Teacher — earned a national median of $18.34 per hour, or $38,140 a year, with the 10th percentile at $13.94 and the 90th at $29.52. Within child care services the median was $17.72 per hour — $36,850 a year.
None of those numbers is a Childtime rate.
They are medians for whole occupations and industries across every employer BLS surveys, so they describe the market a Childtime classroom hires in — not what any Childtime school pays.
With no published brand rate to compare against, the figure on a current posting or an offer letter is the one that counts.
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Childtime benefits and the staff child care discount
What Learning Care Group does publish is its benefits list.
On the careers page we read, the company lists these for team members:
- a 50% child care discount, published as available from your start date
- paid wellness days
- retirement programs with matching dollars
- DailyPay, described as immediate or next-day access to earned wages
The same page advertises tuition reimbursement, a fully funded Child Development Associate (CDA) credential program and the company's own Learning Care Master Teacher certification program.
The CDA line matters beyond this one employer: BLS describes the CDA as the credential states most often require of childcare workers who need a national credential, and notes it must be renewed every 3 years.
The list is the parent company's summary on its own careers page, and the list we read does not spell out eligibility by role, schedule or tenure.
Which parts of it reach a specific Childtime classroom — and when each one starts — is a question to put to the posting or the director.
A careers page is a summary, not a contract
How Childtime pay compares with other centers
There is no verified chain-vs-chain pay comparison to place Childtime in.
No employer-published pay data was verified for Learning Care Group, Childcare Network, Primrose, Goddard, Kiddie Academy or The Learning Experience — private companies as far as our research shows, with no SEC filings to check.
Even KinderCare, a public company that files with the SEC, publishes no teacher hourly pay rates in its annual filing, and no KinderCare-posted wage figure was found in our research.
With nothing like-for-like, we don't rank chains by pay.
Where federal data does measure a gap is between settings, not employers.
In May 2025, preschool teachers earned a median of $17.72 per hour ($36,850 a year) in child care services, against $27.29 ($56,750) in elementary and secondary schools.
BLS notes one offset: many public-school preschool teachers work the traditional 10-month school year, while teachers in daycare settings may work year-round with longer hours.
For the brand-by-brand picture — what each chain does and does not publish — see our best-paying daycare chains comparison.
Childtime's sister brands get the same treatment on our Tutor Time pay and La Petite Academy pay pages.
Childtime pay by state and market
No state or city pay figures for Childtime turned up in our research either — no school-level posted rate did.
What differs by market is everything around the rate.
State minimum wages set different floors: the federal minimum is $7.25 per hour as of October 2026, and state minimums vary, with many higher.
BLS also publishes medians for childcare workers and preschool teachers by state.
Our daycare teacher salary page carries those state medians from the same May 2025 release.
Weigh a Childtime posting in your city against your state's numbers rather than the national ones — a national median blends every state and employer type, so it says little about your local market.
How to find Childtime teacher openings
Learning Care Group runs a careers site covering its brands, Childtime included.
Wherever you come across a listing, note any pay it shows and the date you saw it — our research found no published rate to fall back on, so a dated posted range is the evidence to weigh.
You can also compare several employers at once.
ChildcareHires lists childcare teacher jobs at centers and preschools, so you can weigh posted pay, benefits and schedule across employers before you apply anywhere.
- The posted pay range for the specific role and classroom, not a brand-wide average
- When each benefit starts — the discount is published as available from your start date; ask what carries a waiting period
- What the fully funded CDA program requires in return, if anything
- How a move from assistant to lead teacher changes pay at that school
Career information, not licensing or legal advice. Figures on this page come from Learning Care Group's public careers page and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as published when we read them in October 2026. Confirm anything a specific job offers with the employer, and wage-and-hour questions with the U.S. Department of Labor or your state labor agency.