After adjusting for inflation, the average salary of a Head Start teacher increased less than 1% between 2010 and 2023, from $41,389 to $41,691, according to the Biden administration.

Head Start teachers make an average $38,500. The pay and physically and emotionally exhausting work, are big reasons turnover is so high. Head Start teachers make an average $38,500.

Head Start teachers who stay often do so because they know the difference it can make for children living in poverty. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #1: Hop, hop. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Hop, hop.

Head Start teachers make an average $38,500. The pay and physically and emotionally exhausting work, are big reasons turnover is so high.

After adjusting for inflation, the average salary of a Head Start teacher increased less than 1% between 2010 and 2023, from $41,389 to $41,691, according to the Biden administration.

HHS reports that salaries for Head Start teachers has actually declined in recent years, even as the teachers’ qualifications have risen. Since 2010, HHS says the share of Head Start Preschool ...

Head Start teachers — 70% of whom have bachelor’s degrees — earn $39,000 a year on average, far less than public school teachers with similar credentials. Associated Press.

In some ways, Doris Milton is a Head Start success story. She was a student in one of Chicago's inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help children succeed by ...

She now works as a Head Start teacher in Chicago. After four decades on the job, Milton, 63, earns $22.18 an hour. Her pay puts her above the poverty line, but she is far from financially secure.