ChildcareHires vs Indeed at a glance — with Glassdoor and SimplyHired, the two sites that route employer hiring through Indeed
| Attribute | ChildcareHires | Indeed | Glassdoor | SimplyHired |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A job board built only for early-education jobs at childcare centers, preschools, Head Start programs and other early education programs | A general job site covering every industry, with free and sponsored employer postings | A job site and employer-brand platform that pairs with Indeed for employers | A job site whose postings run through its partnership with Indeed |
| Who it serves | Childcare centers and programs hiring staff, and early educators looking for work — not families looking for care | Employers in every industry, and job seekers of every kind | Employers, alongside Indeed: "Grow your employer brand with Glassdoor. Hire with Indeed." | Employers who post through SimplyHired; the posting also appears on Indeed |
| Roles covered | 31 role pages: infant, toddler, preschool and pre-K teachers, assistants, aides, floaters, substitutes, directors, cooks, drivers and more | Every industry and role type, from preschool teachers to warehouse and office staff | Not published | Not published |
| Published pricing | Standard $199 per post and Featured $399 at launch pricing (regular $299 and $499); slot plans $899 or $1,749 a month | No fixed published Sponsored Jobs price — the Standard price is generated by Indeed's recommendation system, subject to a per-job minimum; many jobs post free | Not published | Not published |
| Billing | One-time payment per post; slot plans bill monthly | Sponsored Jobs bill on the first of the month or when account spending reaches $500, whichever comes first; invoices reflect clicks or started applications | Not published | Not published |
| Contract | None — a single post never renews and there is nothing to sign; slot plans have no minimum term | No long-term contracts on Standard Sponsored Jobs; you set the ad duration | Not published | Not published |
| Cancellation | Slot plans cancel at any time; a post for a role filled early comes down on request | A Sponsored Job plan can be cancelled at any time | Not published | Not published |
| Where a listing appears | The matching role and city pages on ChildcareHires, and Google Jobs | Indeed search results, in a feed mixed with every other industry | On Glassdoor, which tells employers to "Hire with Indeed" | On SimplyHired and, per its post-jobs page, also on Indeed (free or sponsored) |
| How candidates apply | Through the center's own application link or inbox; ChildcareHires never sees or stores applications and keeps no résumé database | Inside Indeed's own tools: Indeed Apply and candidate management on Indeed, screening questions and, on Premium Plus, an AI Recruiting Assistant | Not published | On Indeed's tools — a free post through SimplyHired lets you manage candidates on Indeed |
| New-account offer | None — prices are already launch pricing, which can end without notice | $75 credit to sponsor your first job, for new US accounts that post a job; expires one year after account creation | Not published | Not published |
| Hiring results published | None — the board publishes no applicant, reach or success statistics | Self-reported: Standard claims 3X more applications than free, Premium claims 90% more quality applications than non-Premium sponsored jobs, Urgently Hiring sponsored jobs are said to make a hire 5 days faster | Self-reported: Glassdoor and Indeed together are said to reach over 80% of online job seekers in the U.S. | Self-reported: sponsored jobs are said to be 90% more likely to report a hire than non-sponsored jobs |
As of October 2026, checked on each company's own website.
What do you get with ChildcareHires, and what do you get with Indeed?
ChildcareHires is a job board built only for early-education jobs.
It lists openings at childcare centers, preschools, Head Start programs and other early education programs across 31 role pages — infant, toddler, preschool and pre-K teachers, assistants, aides and floaters, directors, cooks, drivers and front-office staff — and job seekers search and apply free, with no account.
Centers post openings directly and pay for them.
The board is also set up to carry listings collected from employers' own careers pages and public job feeds, and each of those links out to the original posting, so the application goes to the employer itself.
Featured is the one paid placement.
Indeed is a general job site covering every industry.
Many jobs can be posted for free, subject to Indeed's terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits, and free postings can appear in search results with Indeed Apply, screening questions and candidate management on Indeed.
Some jobs are "sponsored only" — for example jobs aggregated from a career site or published from an applicant tracking system — and Indeed reserves the right to require that a job be sponsored for any reason.
Paid visibility comes in three sponsored tiers: Standard, which Indeed says brings "3X more applications than free"; Premium, which it says shows "2X as often in top search results" (both figures self-reported); and Premium Plus (Beta), an AI-powered Recruiting Assistant.
Two other sites sit next to Indeed for employers.
Glassdoor's employer page pairs the two brands, telling employers to grow their employer brand with Glassdoor and to "Hire with Indeed." SimplyHired says it has partnered with Indeed, so a job posted through SimplyHired — free or sponsored — also appears on Indeed.
What does Indeed cost a childcare center?
Start with the free option: Indeed says many jobs post free, subject to its terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits — and some jobs are sponsored only.
Sponsored Jobs have no published fixed price.
Indeed's recommendation system generates a Standard price from factors like job competitiveness, hiring timeline and job-seeker supply; a minimum price for the job appears on the sponsorship page; you can set a different amount as long as it meets that minimum; and the Premium price is set above Standard.
Billing follows spend, not time: the account is billed on the first day of the month or when spending reaches $500, whichever comes first, and invoices reflect the amount spent on job seeker interactions like clicks or started applications.
New accounts get a nudge toward sponsoring: Indeed's preschool-teacher, child-care-worker and teacher-assistant hiring pages offer a $75 credit to sponsor your first job, for new US accounts that post a job.
The credit expires one year after account creation, after which charges follow the Sponsored Job budget.
ChildcareHires prices are flat and published: $199 for a 30-day Standard post or $399 for a Featured post at launch pricing (the regular prices are $299 and $499), each a one-time payment.
Centers that are always hiring can take a slot plan instead — $899 a month for up to 10 live posts, or $1,749 a month for up to 25, with Featured placement on every post of the Brand plan.
How do the contract and cancellation terms compare?
On ChildcareHires a single post is a one-time payment: it never renews and there is nothing to sign.
The monthly slot plans have no minimum term and no contract, cancel at any time, and posts stay live through the month already paid for; a post for a role filled early comes down on request.
On Indeed, Standard Sponsored Jobs carry "No long-term contracts" and "You set the ad duration," and a Sponsored Job plan can be cancelled at any time.
The operative difference is what you pay for.
ChildcareHires' cost is fixed the moment you buy: $199 or $399 per post whether applications arrive tomorrow or the post runs its full 30 days.
Indeed's sponsored cost is generated per job from factors like job competitiveness, hiring timeline and job-seeker supply — the minimum price depends on the job seekers available in the market — and the bill follows the interactions the post actually receives.
One more term worth knowing: a duplicate or mistaken charge on ChildcareHires is refunded in full every time, and other refund requests have a short window set out in the refund policy.
Which audience sees your preschool teacher opening?
Indeed's audience is everyone's.
It is a general site covering every industry, where an opening for a lead teacher sits in a feed beside postings from every other field.
Glassdoor's employer page says the two sites together reach over 80% of online job seekers in the U.S. (self-reported), and a job posted through SimplyHired cross-publishes to Indeed as well.
That breadth is what you want when a center also hires outside early education — a bookkeeper, a marketing hire — or when volume for assistant and aide roles matters more than industry fit.
ChildcareHires' audience is only early education.
Job seekers arrive on role pages for infant, toddler, preschool and pre-K teachers, assistants, floaters, directors and the rest of a center's staff; a post shows on the matching role and city pages and is indexed in Google Jobs.
The trade is focus: everyone on the board is there for early-education work, not one industry among dozens in a mixed feed.
For high-volume assistant hiring, the two are complements rather than substitutes — a sponsored budget on Indeed for reach and volume, with a fixed-cost post on a childcare-only board running alongside it.
Where do applicants go after they click Apply?
On ChildcareHires, the employer adds the link or email where applications should go, and candidates who click Apply go to the center's own application page or inbox.
ChildcareHires never sees or stores what they send.
There are no candidate profiles and no résumé database — the board carries the posting and hands the applicant to you.
On Indeed, applicants stay in Indeed's tools.
The free tier includes Indeed Apply and managing candidates on Indeed, with screening questions and analytics; the sponsored tiers add paid visibility — by Indeed's self-reported figures, Standard brings 3X more applications than free and Premium appears in top search results 2X as often — and Premium Plus (Beta) is an AI-powered Recruiting Assistant.
That is the structural fork.
If your center already runs its own application form or inbox and wants applications landing there, ChildcareHires is built for exactly that.
If you would rather filter, message and track candidates inside the board itself, Indeed's toolkit does that and ChildcareHires deliberately does not.
What hiring results does each one publish?
ChildcareHires publishes none.
No applicant counts, no reach figures, no success statistics — the board is new and does not publish candidate, applicant or reach numbers.
On this front the gap genuinely favours Indeed, and it should be said plainly.
Indeed publishes self-reported results: Standard-plan sponsored jobs claim "3X more applications than free," Premium claims 90% more quality applications than non-Premium sponsored jobs, and sponsored jobs posted with Urgently Hiring are said to make a hire 5 days faster (Indeed data, median United States, Q2 2024).
SimplyHired's post-jobs page adds a self-reported figure of its own: Sponsored Jobs posted directly on Indeed are 90% more likely to report a hire than non-sponsored jobs.
Every one of those figures comes from the companies' own marketing rather than an independent measurement, and none is specific to childcare.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Indeed if…
- You want one account for every opening the center has, childcare and non-childcare alike — front desk, bookkeeping, maintenance.
- You want to start free and accept the usage limits, quality standards and the lower ranking free posts get as new jobs come in, as Indeed's partner SimplyHired describes.
- You would rather pay per click or per started application, at a budget you set per job, than a flat price per post.
- You want candidates screened and managed inside the board's own tools — Indeed Apply, candidate management on Indeed, screening questions and, on Premium Plus, an AI Recruiting Assistant.
- Your center is a new US employer account, so the $75 credit to sponsor a first job is on the table.
Choose ChildcareHires if…
- You want a published, flat price — $199 per Standard post or $399 per Featured post at launch pricing — with no bidding, no budget to manage and no monthly invoice to read.
- You want the opening in front of early-education job seekers only, on role pages for infant through pre-K teachers, assistants, directors and center staff.
- You want applications to land in your own inbox or application page — ChildcareHires keeps no résumé database and never stores what candidates send.
- You are always hiring and want slots that refill — up to 10 or 25 posts live at once on a monthly plan with no minimum term.
- You want to know the full cost when you buy: a one-time payment per post that never renews, or a monthly plan that cancels anytime.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Indeed charge a childcare center to post a job?
Posting can be free: Indeed says many jobs can be posted for free, subject to its terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits, though some jobs are sponsored only.
Sponsored Jobs have no published fixed price — Indeed's recommendation system generates a Standard price with a per-job minimum — and the account is billed on the first of the month or when spending reaches $500, whichever comes first.
Invoices reflect clicks or started applications.
How much does it cost to post on ChildcareHires?
A Standard post is $199 and a Featured post is $399, at launch pricing (regular prices $299 and $499).
Each post runs 30 days, is a one-time payment that never renews, and is indexed in Google Jobs and shown on the matching role and city pages.
Centers that hire constantly can take a slot plan instead: $899 a month for up to 10 live posts or $1,749 a month for up to 25.
Is Indeed good for hiring daycare teachers and assistants?
It can work well, especially when volume matters.
Indeed is a general site covering every industry, so a daycare opening sits in a mixed feed and you will screen applicants from outside early education.
Free posts are subject to usage limits and tend to rank lower as new jobs are added, per its partner SimplyHired; sponsored budgets lift visibility.
Indeed's published results — 3X more applications than free on Standard, 90% more quality applications on Premium than on non-Premium sponsored jobs — are self-reported.
Does Indeed offer a credit for new childcare employers?
Yes.
Indeed's preschool-teacher, child-care-worker and teacher-assistant hiring pages offer a $75 credit to sponsor your first job.
It is only for new US accounts that post a job, and it expires one year after account creation — after that, charges follow your Sponsored Job budget.
Where do applicants go when they apply from ChildcareHires?
To you.
The employer adds the link or email where applications should go, and candidates who click Apply land on the center's own application page or inbox.
ChildcareHires never sees or stores what they send.
There are no candidate profiles and no résumé database on the board — it carries the posting and routes the applicant to the center.
Does ChildcareHires have a résumé database like Indeed?
No — and we say so plainly.
ChildcareHires keeps no candidate profiles or résumé database; it carries your posting and sends applicants to your own apply link or inbox.
Indeed's free tier includes managing candidates on Indeed and Indeed Apply, and its Premium Plus plan (Beta) is an AI-powered Recruiting Assistant.
If a résumé database is central to how you hire, that is a real reason to stay on Indeed.
Should a daycare post on Indeed and a childcare job board at the same time?
For high-volume assistant and aide hiring, the two work well together: Indeed's general audience is where raw volume sits, and a fixed-cost post on a childcare-only board keeps the opening in front of early educators for 30 days.
ChildcareHires is the better single choice when you want a known cost per post and a childcare-only audience; Indeed is the better one when you want free posting and pay-per-interaction control.
Can you cancel an Indeed sponsored job?
Yes.
Indeed's pricing page says a Sponsored Job plan can be cancelled at any time, Standard plans carry "No long-term contracts," and you set the ad duration.
Spending is billed on the first of the month or when account spending reaches $500, whichever comes first.
On ChildcareHires, a single post is a one-time payment and slot plans bill monthly with no minimum term.
Where these facts come from
- Indeed: indeed.com/hire/pricing (checked October 8, 2026)
- Indeed: indeed.com/hire/how-to-hire/preschool-teacher (checked October 8, 2026)
- Glassdoor: glassdoor.com/employers (checked October 8, 2026)
- SimplyHired: simplyhired.com/post-jobs (checked October 8, 2026)