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Early Learning and Child Care Wage Grid

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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
Effective April 1, 2025

 

Definitions
To view the sections of the Child Care Regulation referred to below, visit https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/regs/current/_pdf-regs.php?reg=62/86
  
·         CCA (with 40 hour course): a person who has been issued a certificate as a Child Care Assistant under Categories of Certificates Section 3.1 and has completed a 40-hour course related to early childhood education, as required under Staff Qualifications Section 7(11.1) for centre employees or under Licence Application Section 22(1)(g) for family child care homes and Licence Application 35(2)(m) for group child care homes.
·         CCA in ECE II Training: a person who has been issued a certificate as a Child Care Assistant under Categories of Certificates Section 3.1 and is completing approximately six courses/18 credit hours per year in a recognized ECE program or is a participant in the ELCC ECE II Assessment Program (formerly called Competency Based Assessment/Prior Learning Assessment).
·         ECE II: aa person who has been issued a certificate as an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) II under Categories of Certificates Section 3.1.
·         ECE III: a person who has been issued a certificate as an ECE III under Categories of Certificates Section 3.1.