The Wages and Salaries Survey 2023 was open from Monday 3 July to Monday 21 August. The survey is open to all Education and Care services (as defined by the Ministry of Education) - Kindergartens, Kōhanga Reo, Playcentre and Homebased are not included. participants will be asked for data from all employees (including unqualified kaiako, administrators and cooks).
There is an option for larger groups of centres to submit data using a spreadsheet – this will be less time-consuming than completing multiple entries for every centre. Contact Nicole (nicole.vairo@ecc.org.nz) if you would like to submit via spreadsheet.
Want to know more about the Wages and Salaries Survey? ECC Policy Advisor speaks to 1Place about the purpose of the survey and the function it serves for the whole sector. Read now.
The Early Childhood Council (ECC) is committed to promoting high quality ECE in New Zealand. This begins with ensuring all our staff are being paid fairly and reasonable for the important work they do. Part of our approach is our annual survey which is sent out to Education and Care services, this excludes Kindergartens, Kōhanga Reo, Playcentre and home based centres.
The survey has been designed to help us better understand how ECE staff are being paid and to better help employers and employees understand which wages are fair and reasonable. The survey will compare the different wages and salaries of our ECE staff across different roles, based on region, qualifications and experience. It has been designed to provide a comprehensive outlook on how centres compare to others.
This survey does not identify private individual information for any children or staff at your service. We recognise the service-level data may be commercially sensitive. We commit to safeguarding your information and emphasise that it will be anonymised through the collection and all data . The data collected will only be used for the purpose described above. ECC's analysis will be the intellectual property of ECC.
A summary report of the results of this survey will be made available for all participants and a full report will be available for purchase. Participants will also be entitled to a discount off the full price of the report. No individual service will be made identifiable within the reports.
For any questions on the Wages and Salaries Survey and its reports, please contact Nicole (nicole.vairo@ecc.org.nz).
ECC has partnered with 1Place Childcare to run this survey.
1Place are a digital platform replacing paper-based checklists and incident forms with mobile tools to help meet compliance, quality and health and safety obligations.
