Pay and Conditions

Wages and Salaries Survey

Helping centres understand how ECE staff are being paid, and supporting employers and employees to understand which wages are fair and reasonable.

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The Early Childhood Council (ECC) is committed to promoting high quality ECE in New Zealand. This begins with ensuring all staff are being paid fairly for the important work they do. Part of our approach is the annual Wages and Salaries Survey, through which we collect data about what ECE staff from a range of roles are being paid.

This survey is open to all Education and Care providers irrespective of if you are a current member with ECC and we encourage a diverse range of centres to participate. Collection for the Wages and Salaries Survey 2024 has now closed and an Interim Report will be available to participants shortly.

Purpose of the Survey

The survey has been designed to help us better understand how ECE staff are being paid and to 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, regions, qualifications and experience.

Privacy and Security

ECC recognise that service-level data is commercially sensitive; it will be stored securely and used only for the purposes described above. Findings will be anonymised in all publications, and we do not collect data about children.

ECC's analysis remains the intellectual property of ECC.

Survey Results

An Interim Report of the results of this survey will be made available FREE to all participants, with a Full Report published and made available for purchase every second year.