Assistant Director Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

Childcare Hires had 372 open assistant director listings from 105 employers on October 13, 2026.

226 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 291 in the previous 30 days.

To browse the openings themselves, see all assistant director listings.

Employers hiring assistant directors on Childcare Hires advertise a median of $52,000 a year across 33 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

84 assistant director listings from 42 employers stated hourly pay instead, with an employer median of $20.25 an hour.

BLS publishes no separate wage for assistant directors; the median annual wage for all education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare (SOC 11-9031), the occupation that includes them, was $59,300 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

For more on what assistant directors earn, see the assistant director salary guide.

Texas had the most open assistant director listings on October 13, 2026, with 43 (11.6% of the national total).

Illinois followed with 26 (7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with assistant director openings in Texas.

105 employers had open assistant director listings on Childcare Hires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 61.8% of them.

84 employers (80%) had exactly one open assistant director listing.

Child care services employed 60,540 preschool and childcare center administrators in May 2025, 6.0% of the industry's wage-and-salary jobs, with a median annual wage of $58,090 (BLS OEWS, NAICS 6244).

The child care services industry employed 1,004,990 wage-and-salary workers in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $36,580 across all its occupations (BLS OEWS, NAICS 6244).

For BLS employment projections and annual openings, see the childcare director job outlook.

For why centers struggle to fill these roles, see our childcare staffing shortage analysis.

For how to enter the field, see the assistant director career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid assistant director listing on Childcare Hires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all assistant director jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a chain posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than 50% of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

Assistant director listings post pay hourly and annually in similar numbers; the two are never converted into each other.