School-Age Teacher Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

Childcare Hires had 1,010 open school-age teacher listings from 133 employers on October 13, 2026.

476 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 636 in the previous 30 days.

At least 48.1% of school-age 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 school-age teacher listings.

Too few school-age teacher listings stated pay from enough different employers on October 13, 2026 to publish an advertised-pay figure.

BLS publishes no separate wage for school-age teachers; the closest related occupation, recreation workers (SOC 39-9032), had a median annual wage of $36,560 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), shown only as a benchmark.

For more on what school-age teachers earn, see the school-age teacher salary guide.

California had the most open school-age teacher listings on October 13, 2026, with 227 (22.5% of the national total).

New York followed with 120 (11.9%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with school-age teacher openings in California.

133 employers had open school-age teacher listings on Childcare Hires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 72.1% of them.

94 employers (70.7%) had exactly one open school-age teacher listing.

The largest single employer, KinderCare Learning Companies, posted 37.7% of all school-age 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 school-age teacher career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid school-age 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 school-age 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.

School-age listings include before- and after-school and summer camp roles at childcare centers.