How does your state stack up?Annual infant care costs in active.name
Alabama
- Annual infant care costs:$5,637
- Median family income:$51,206
- Infant care costs as a share of median family income:11.0%
- Savings to typical families with an infant from capping child care expenditures at 7% of income:$516
- Share of (post–child care) median income freed up by capping infant care expenditures at 7% of income:1.1%
- Share of families able to afford infant care (i.e., costs are 7% or less of income):48.4%
- Full-time minimum wage salary:$15,080
- Infant care costs as a share of minimum wage earnings:37.4%
- Median child care worker salary:$17,990
- Infant care costs as a share of child care worker earnings:31.3%
- In-state tuition for four-year public college:$8,503
- Infant care costs as a share of public college tuition:66.3%
- Annual rent:$8,155
- Infant care as a share of rent:69.1%
- Increase in state’s economy from capping families’ child care expenditures at 7% of income:0.3% ($654.8 million)
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Alabama
- Annual infant care costs:$5,637
- Median family income:$51,206
- Infant care costs as a share of median family income:11.0%
- Savings to typical families with an infant from capping child care expenditures at 7% of income:$516
- Share of (post–child care) median income freed up by capping infant care expenditures at 7% of income:1.1%
- Share of families able to afford infant care (i.e., costs are 7% or less of income):48.4%
- Full-time minimum wage salary:$15,080
- Infant care costs as a share of minimum wage earnings:37.4%
- Median child care worker salary:$17,990
- Infant care costs as a share of child care worker earnings:31.3%
- In-state tuition for four-year public college:$8,503
- Infant care costs as a share of public college tuition:66.3%
- Annual rent:$8,155
- Infant care as a share of rent:69.1%
- Increase in state’s economy from capping families’ child care expenditures at 7% of income:0.3% ($654.8 million)
Source: Economic Policy Institute: The cost of child care in the United States
