Early Learning and Child Care Wage Grid
Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Wage Grid is designed to support licensed and funded child care facilities in offering accessible, quality child care by recognizing the valuable contributions of the early learning and child care workforce in helping children learn, grow, and develop to their fullest potential.
The ELCC Wage Grid provides guidance to licensed and funded early learning and child care facilities in developing equitable and competitive salary scales across employee positions/classifications. As the legal entity and authority, the board of directors of a non-profit child care centre is responsible for establishing wages. In family and group child care homes that employ staff, the licence holder is responsible for establishing wages.
This approach preserves the authority of boards and child care home licence holders, while ensuring consistent and better wages are provided to the early learning and child care workforce.
The Target Hourly Wage is the expected amount to be paid to staff based on their position/classification. Funding provided through the Wage Grid Supplement must be used to help meet the new Target wages on the 2025/26 Wage Grid for all position/classification levels on a facility’s salary scale.
| 2025-2026 Early Learning and Child Care Wage Grid | ||
|---|---|---|
| Position/Classification | Target Hourly Wage | |
| Director ECE III | ||
| 151-200 spaces | $39.41 | |
| 51-150 spaces | $36.91 | |
| 50 spaces or less | $34.66 | |
| Director ECE II | ||
| 151-200 spaces | $37.56 | |
| 51-150 spaces | $35.06 | |
| 50 spaces or less | $32.81 | |
| Assistant Director | ||
| ECE III | $32.66 | |
| ECE II | $30.81 | |
| Supervisor | ||
| ECE III | $30.97 | |
| ECE II | $29.06 | |
| Frontline Staff | ||
| ECE III | $29.41 | |
| ECE II | $27.56 | |
| CCA-in-ECE II Training | $22.37 | |
| CCA (with 40 hour course) | $19.40 | |