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Childcare Workers
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
What a childcare worker does
Become a childcare worker
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good childcare worker
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Wage information is not available. Average annual earnings data is currently unavailable.
Childcare Worker job outlook
- There are 3,712 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 2,407 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.