What jobs can you get with a bachelor's in early childhood education? (without a state cert)?

Question

what kind of salary can you make at these jobs?

Answer 1

I think it depends on the state that you live. Where I live, you can be a director for a daycare.

Answer 2

In addition to being a director in a day care there would be plenty of options in Head Start, which the pay would be better. This would include jobs such as an education director, working with curriculum, supervisory, and so forth. These jobs in Head Start would probably pay $15-18/hr depending on experience.

Answer 3

this will all depend on what state you live in.

as a current employee of head start, i'll tell you right now that all of us teachers have to have bachelors and certification by 2010 where i live. thankfully, i already had it before i became employed by them. many head start teachers with just their early childhood degree are now scrambling to take classes in the evening to get their certification.

really, your choices are a LOT more limited by not having a state certification. i was talking to the director of a NAEYC accredited preschool in my town who hired a girl with only a bachelors in ECE. the director said this girl did NOT realize that she couldn't get a regular teaching job.  ECE is supposed to encompass teaching up through Grade 3, but without state certification, you can't teach in a school. this girl is stuck teaching at this preschool (the best one in town) where she's hourly, no pension, no summer pay....

i enjoy working for Head Start, but am hoping to get into the public school. Head Start is not at all like being a public school teacher. when you're hourly, you don't get paid all summer (i just got another promotion this year, which made me salary, so now i get paid year round). but i only make $24,440 (after 3.5 years) compared to a starting salary in a public school around here being around $30,000. plus, there is NOT the great pension/retirement plan like a public school teacher gets. i love my job. i love the age and group of kids i work with. but in the long run, it's not realistic as a lifelong career. i'm very grateful that i got my Elementary and Early Childhood degrees and certification.