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Davidson County Child Care Landscape Study Results
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Part-time Staff
The model center employs several part-time service providers. Wages and the number of
hours worked vary by the service, as reported in Table 6. Part-time staff do not receive
benefits beyond mandatory payroll contributions.
Table 6: Wages of Part-time Service Providers
Service
Hours
Hourly Wage
Annual Pay
8 per week
$32.00
$13,312
Family Outreach*
16 per year
$27.00
$432
Janitorial
15 per week
$23.00
$17,940
Maintenance
10 per week
$23.00
$11,960
Behavioral Services
Notes: * Upon consultation with the Child Care Workgroup, the need for family engagement services is calculated as 16 hours
per 50 children whose parents receive full or partial payment assistance, estimated as 50% of children receiving care.
Accordingly, the Model Center contains 47 children requiring payment assistance.
Facility Costs and Other Fixed Expenses
Facility rent/mortgage payments and operating costs represent a large expense for the model
center. Most facility-related expenses are proportional to facility size, which is itself
proportional to the number of children served. The total size of the model center, including
classroom and non-classroom space, is 6,045 square feet, or 65 square feet per enrolled
child. Assumptions about facility size and related expenses are adopted from the ACF
Calculator, with rent scaled to the cost of living in Davidson County and other values at
Tennessee defaults (see Table 7).
Table 7: Facility Expenses at the Model Center
Expense Category
Expenses per Square Foot
Annual Expenses
Mortgage/Rent
$24
$145,080
Utilities (power, water, sewer, etc.)
$3
$18,135
Insurance
$2
$12,090
Total
$29
$175,305
Beyond facility-related costs, the model center incurs expenses that do not depend on the
size of the center. These expenses appear in Table 8. The Child Care Workgroup provided
estimates for the cost of internet/phone service and annual audits. For all other fixed
expenses, we adopted the default assumptions of the ACF Calculator for Tennessee.
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