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Davidson County Child Care Landscape Study Results
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Table 11: Wages of Staff at Child Care Homes
Staff Role
Owner
Assistant Educator
Part-time Substitute
Home Type
Hours
Hourly Wage
Total Pay
All
2,080 per year
$40.13
$83,461
Group
2,080 per year
$27.05
$56,266
Family
1,160 per year
Group
2,320 per year
$23.00
$26,680
$55,430
Full-time staff receive the same suite of benefits as full-time staff at the model center (see Table
5), except for the child care discount. Additionally, paid time off costs are not assumed to be zero.
Instead, these costs are included in the number of substitute hours required in Table 11.
Home Expenses
The portion of home-related expenses that may be deemed business expenses is given by the
time-space percentage, which is equal to the percent of time that the home is used for work (the
time percentage) multiplied by the percent of the home’s total area that is regularly used for
business purposes (the space percentage). Elements of these percentages appear in Table 12.
Table 12: Assumptions for Time-Space Percentage Computations
Age Group
Family Home
Group Home
Days Open per Year
260 days
260 days
Working Hours per Day
12 hours
12 hours
Time Percentage
35.6%
35.6%
Total Home Size
1,500 ft2
2,000 ft2
Space used for Business
500 ft2
750 ft2
Space Percentage
33.3%
37.5%
Time-Space Percentage
11.8%
13.4%
We assumed that both model homes are used for business 12 hours per day, including open
hours as well as after-hours maintenance, 260 days per year, for a total of 3,120 working
hours, or 35.6% of a non-leap year. Home sizes are based on typical Nashville home sizes,
with the assumption that group homes will require additional space.
Full home expenses appear in Table 13. When computing the cost of care, we multiplied
each full expense by the time-space percentage to determine the portion that constitutes a
business expense. A mortgage cost of $16 per square foot is based on the 2025 estimates of
the median monthly mortgage payment in Middle Tennessee (approximately $2,500) and
average home size (approximately 1900 square feet) in Davidson County.16,17 Similarly, the
property tax cost of $1.60 per square foot is based on a home of average value ($440,000)
and size (see above) and assumes that the home is within Davidson County’s Urban
Services District.18,19 All other expenses are set at the default values for Tennessee homebased care in the ACF calculator.
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