Quote Originally Posted by Babywood View Post
Hi, I am Dawn. My son is 13 months now. I am planning to open a day care, not day home. However, I cannot find any info about how much day care workers get paid. I want to provide good quality day care because I know how important it s for our kids. Therefore, I want to provide good salary for those people who work at the center, at the same time I need to have some profit in order to keep the center running. Can anyone let know if you know anything about it? I am in Calgary. I found out the quality of day care centers here are not as good as I think. This is the main reason that I want to open a day care myself.

I did a draft cash flow and find out the day care actually does not earn much. The biggest expenses are salary. Any thoughts?

Thank you very much.
What research have you done? I have done only little and from what I found in order to make a profit you need at least 80 kids. What programs are you planning on running? What food program are you going to run? Will you require a nutrionist or just a cook? If you want people with degrees then you will need to pay more than minimum wage.
What about equipment play gyms etc.there’s tons to consider?

Call around and ask different centers what they pay their staff.

The majority of us on this site are dayhomes so I'm not sure what your looking for.