Understanding the CCEE workforce can help identify disparities and opportunities regarding CCEE workforce member wages, benefits and work experience. It can also provide valuable information about the characteristics of workforce members in relation to the characteristics of the program sites which employ them. This question can be answered by linking practitioner and site level information.
What is the average compensation of CCEE workforce members by personal characteristic, role/position, and CCEE program context?
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Calculate the Average Compensation for CCEE Workforce Members
The compensation of CCEE workforce members is detailed in the data element Hourly Wage. If finding yearly compensation is of interest, multiply Hourly Wage by Hours Worked per Week and by Weeks Employed per Year for each practitioner.
Analyze the Average Compensation for CCEE Workforce Members by Role
These compensation numbers can be analyzed in combination with a variety of Practitioner Level data elements to see how average compensation differs. A list of Practitioner Level data elements that may be of interest for this analysis may be found in the data dictionary of this toolkit. The role or position of CCEE workforce members can be identified by using the Staff Classification data element. The field values for this data element include administrative support staff, behavioral specialist, and early learning assistant teacher, among others. The role of each CCEE workforce member is identified with a “Yes” value for the appropriate staff classification field.
Analyze the Average Compensation for CCEE Workforce Members by Early Childhood Program Type and Early Childhood Setting
The Site Level data elements Early Childhood Program Type Offered, and Early Childhood Setting can be used to identify the program context or setting for programs where CCEE workforce members are employed. CCEE workforce member data can be associated with corresponding site level information using Practitioner ID and Site ID. Average compensation for CCEE workforce members working in different roles, programs, and settings can then be compared.
Analyze the Average Compensation for CCEE Workforce Members by Other Characteristics of Interest
Example 1: Does the average hourly wage of a CCEE workforce member differ by years of experience in early childhood settings? To answer this question, identify the length of CCEE workforce members’ experience in early childhood settings by using the numerical value for the Years in Field data element. A correlation analysis can be conducted using the Hourly Wages for CCEE workforce members and years of experience to determine the strength of the association between the two. Alternately, the Years of Experience values can be grouped into categories of interest. For example, less than one year, one to five years and more than five years. Then the average Hourly Wage for CCEE workforce members can be compared based on those categories.
Example 2: Do CCEE workforce members who have more years of experience earn a higher hourly wage across different early childhood settings? Split practitioner data into groups based on the Type of Setting of the program they are employed in and run a correlation analysis between Years in Field and Hourly Wage for each group.