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Reducing penalties and improving wages in the home health care and child care sectors: Excerpt of benchmarks for setting wage standards for care workers
| Home health care workers | Child care workers | |
|---|---|---|
| Current average wage | $13.81 | $13.51 |
| Reducing pay disparities | ||
| Reducing care penalties | $15.74 | $15.47 |
| Reducing demographic penalties | $20.20 | $19.87 |
| Add union premium | $22.26 | $21.90 |
Notes: Wages are based on pooled 2018 to 2020 microdata from the Economic Policy Institute’s extracts of the Current Population Survey, reported in 2020 dollars.
Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group (ORG) microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.18 (2021), https://microdata.epi.org.
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