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

Childcare Hires had 316 open teacher aide listings from 155 employers on October 22, 2026.

86 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 224 in the previous 30 days.

At least 21.5% of teacher aide listings were part-time on October 22, 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 teacher aide listings.

Employers hiring teacher aides on Childcare Hires advertise a median of $17.50 an hour across 88 employers on October 22, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

BLS publishes no separate wage for teacher aides; the median annual wage for all teaching assistants, except postsecondary (SOC 25-9045), the occupation that includes them, was $36,780 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

For more on what teacher aides earn, see the teacher aide salary guide.

Maryland had the most open teacher aide listings on October 22, 2026, with 54 (17.1% of the national total).

California followed with 33 (10.4%).

155 employers had open teacher aide listings on Childcare Hires on October 22, 2026, and the five largest posted 36.1% of them.

121 employers (78.1%) had exactly one open teacher aide listing.

Child care services employed 140,750 teaching assistants in May 2025, 14.0% of the industry's wage-and-salary jobs, with a median annual wage of $34,920 (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 teacher aide career guide.

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