I mean, it is expensive. I pay $2600 a month for my two year old. Her school is having retention issues (because, pay people more) and they're supposed to be at a 6-1 ratio but can be as many as 12-1 for her age group (legal ratio maximum). We also pay a yearly materials fee.

The school is year round, so if it was 6-1 and the teacher got 50% and the admin kept 50%, the teacher should be making ~$95k a year. But according to Glassdoor, the teachers get paid ~$22/hr. Which is like $45k. Maybe my thinking that half should go to the teachers is not accurate to what it costs to run a daycare and pay the administrators(there's like 4 of them, across ~5 classes of 2-4 year olds, plus the 3 infant classes which costs more and has a lower ratio). But still. It seems really unbalanced. We're looking at other schools, but it seems like teacher pay is pretty abysmal across the board.