Floater Teacher Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

Childcare Hires had 560 open floater teacher listings from 201 employers on October 13, 2026.

447 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 481 in the previous 30 days.

At least 18.6% of floater teacher listings were part-time on October 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

To browse the openings themselves, see all floater teacher listings.

Employers hiring floater teachers on Childcare Hires advertise a median of $17.50 an hour across 139 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

BLS publishes no separate wage for floater teachers; the median annual wage for all childcare workers (SOC 39-9011), the occupation that includes them, was $34,980 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

For more on what floater teachers earn, see the floater teacher salary guide.

Texas had the most open floater teacher listings on October 13, 2026, with 55 (9.8% of the national total).

Pennsylvania followed with 35 (6.3%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with floater teacher openings in Texas.

201 employers had open floater teacher listings on Childcare Hires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 49.5% of them.

156 employers (77.6%) had exactly one open floater teacher listing.

The largest single employer, The Goddard School, posted 26.4% of all floater teacher listings, so this sample leans toward large childcare chains.

Child care services employed 269,970 childcare workers in May 2025, 26.9% of the industry's wage-and-salary jobs, with a median annual wage of $34,170 (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 and preschool teacher job outlook.

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

For how to enter the field, see the floater teacher career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid floater teacher 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 floater teacher 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.