How Much Do Learning Care Group Teachers Make?

Learning Care Group is one company behind many classroom doors.

Childtime Learning Centers, La Petite Academy and Tutor Time are its brands, alongside The Children's Courtyard, Everbrook Academy, Montessori Unlimited and Creative Kids Learning Center.

Whichever banner a school carries, the pay picture starts at the parent company: the Learning Care Group careers page we read in October 2026 lists benefits but no wage figures, and our research found no employer-posted hourly pay for the company or its Childtime, La Petite Academy and Tutor Time brands.

A current posting's own rate — saved with the date you saw it — is the only company-specific number you will get.

For the market around any posted offer, the federal benchmarks are the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025 release.

In child day care services — the industry category that covers chain and independent centers — the role ladder reads:

• Childcare workers (SOC 39-9011) — an occupation whose reported job titles include daycare, infant and toddler teacher — earned a median of $16.43 an hour ($34,170 a year) in child day care services, against $16.82 ($34,980) nationwide across all industries, where the 10th percentile earned $11.66 and the 90th $22.12.
• Preschool teachers except special education (SOC 25-2011) — lead preschool and pre-K teachers — earned a median of $17.72 an hour ($36,850 a year) in child day care services, against $18.34 ($38,140) nationwide, with the 10th percentile at $13.94 and the 90th at $29.52.
• Preschool and childcare administrators (SOC 11-9031) — center directors — earned a median of $58,090 a year in child day care services, against $59,300 ($28.51 an hour) nationwide.

Read these as the neighborhood, not the house.

They are medians for entire occupations and industries, and the survey publishes by occupation and industry, not by employer brand — none of them is a Learning Care Group rate.

What they tell you is whether a posted offer sits above or below the sector's middle.

The clearest public data on working for the company is its own benefits list.

On the careers page, Learning Care Group lists these for team members:

• a 50% child care discount, available from your start date
• paid wellness days
• retirement programs with matching dollars
• DailyPay, advertised 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 is the credential issued by the Council for Professional Recognition, so an employer-funded route to it is an asset that travels with you between jobs.

The discount also has a tax dimension worth knowing before you count it as money earned.

The federal dependent care assistance exclusion was raised from $5,000 to $7,500 a year ($3,750 if married filing separately) by 2025 legislation, and employer-provided child care discounts beyond that exclusion may be taxable.

Payroll at the school can tell you how the discount is applied in your case.

Honest chain-vs-chain comparisons run out of data fast.

Our research found no employer-published pay rates for Learning Care Group, Childcare Network, Primrose, Goddard, Kiddie Academy or The Learning Experience — privately held as far as our research shows, with no SEC filings turned up for any of them.

The public operators disclose more but still no base rates: KinderCare's FY2025 10-K describes “competitive wages” for eligible full-time employees yet publishes no teacher hourly pay rates (our KinderCare pay page walks through the filings), and Bright Horizons' 2025 10-K reports 3-4% average hourly wage increases in its full-service center segment rather than the rates themselves.

What Bright Horizons' filing does show is a benefits shape: the Horizons CDA and Degree Program covers a CDA, associate or bachelor's ECE degree at no cost.

With no like-for-like employer-published figures, nobody can rank these banners by pay — so we don't.

Franchise brands are a different shape again.

Each Primrose school is a privately owned franchise whose franchise owner is the employer and sets its own wage and benefit programs; The Goddard School says the same of its franchisees, and Kiddie Academy notes the employer at a location may be an independent franchise operator rather than the brand.

At those schools, it is the employer at each location — not the banner — that sets compensation.

What federal data does compare cleanly is settings, not employers.

In May 2025, preschool teachers (SOC 25-2011) earned a median of $17.72 an hour ($36,850 a year) in child day care services, versus $27.29 ($56,750) in elementary and secondary schools; within schools, local-government systems paid a median of $61,300 and private schools $44,290.

BLS adds one caution on reading that gap: many public-school preschool teachers work the traditional 10-month school year, while daycare-setting teachers may work year-round with longer hours.

If the brand question is really “who pays best?”, our best-paying daycare chains overview explains what can and can't be compared from public data.

We found no state-by-state Learning Care Group pay figures — the careers page we read lists no wage rates — so size your market with the public signals.

BLS publishes May 2025 medians for childcare workers and preschool teachers by state, and our daycare teacher salary page carries the childcare-worker table.

In Texas, for example, preschool teachers earned a median of $16.28 an hour ($33,860 a year) in May 2025.

Wage floors also differ: the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and many states set theirs higher (U.S. Department of Labor), one reason the same role can post at different rates across state lines.

State programs can add another layer on top of any employer's wage.

The national T.E.A.C.H. center's programs-by-state directory lists where WAGE$-model salary supplements and similar programs run, and our state wage supplements guide covers how they work.

Check your state before judging a posted rate on its own.

Learning Care Group recruits through its own careers site, and its schools operate under brand names — so search the brand you want, whether that's Childtime, La Petite Academy, Tutor Time or one of the others, as well as the parent company.

We keep brand-level guides for Tutor Time pay, La Petite Academy pay and Childtime pay if one of those is your target.

When a posting lists a rate, save it with the date: posted figures move, and a dated record is the only Learning Care Group pay data you can rely on.

You can also weigh several employers at once.

ChildcareHires lists childcare teacher jobs at centers and preschools, so you can compare openings before you apply anywhere.

Career information, not licensing or legal advice. Figures on this page come from Learning Care Group's public careers pages 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.