Washington, DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund Increased the Number of Child Care and Early Education Workers After Two Years

This fact sheet presents findings on the two-year labor market impacts of Washington, DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, a pioneering initiative to address pay disparities between CCEE educators and K–12 teachers. Findings are based on comparisons of outcomes in Washington, DC and a “Synthetic” Washington, DC, which was constructed using a group of counties similar to Washington, DC prior to the launch of the program. Outcomes are from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which provides counts of CCEE employees, average weekly wages, and establishments over time. This fact sheet is drawn from the study’s two-year impact report, which contains a more detailed presentation of these findings.