What are typical benefits offered to a Daycare Worker?

I am doing a college HR project on a daycare center and I have to develop an Benefits section in an HR manual. I know most daycares don't offer a lot of benefits, but there must be a few. Any help would be appreciated! I've contacted a few daycares and most are not willing to divulge the information to me.

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1. Sadly, those important ladies who care for our most precious bundles are often paid worse then McDonald employees and certainly get less benefits then McDonalds!

   If its not a chain daycare I would assume they would limit their employees to 44 to keep themselves a small business and avoid things like FMLA.

   Probably other nonsense like health care benefits are only for full time employees, and most employees will work 38 hours a week. Yes, I have worked for places like this.

   Hm, for small stuff you can offer some kind of employee savings or retirement matching package after 2 years... and limit it to like 2%.

   Oh, usually daycare workers have to pay to bring their kids... but maybe you could offer something like a 15% discount on daycare services during the hours the parent is working.



2. I worked for a daycare briefly. There were no benefits whatsoever. I made $6.25 an hour as well. None of the other long term employees had benefits either.

   My daughter goes to a daycare, and I really doubt they offer their employees benefits. This is a church owned daycare if that matters.



3. Free or discounted child care for their children.


4. The daycare that I am currently working at does not have any benefits at all. Some daycares will give you a precentage off if you have children that attend the daycare or if you recommend more children to the daycare. Most daycares like the one I work for has dissatisfied employees because of the lack of benefits and they tend to leave and find another job. Some employers offer child daycare benefits to employees and some dont.