Your Results
Estimated cost of turnover:
—over 3 years
Based on your inputs and typical turnover and cost benchmarks for centers like yours.
Improving retention could significantly reduce these costs.
Teaching Strategies helps centers improve teacher retention—by up to 59%, as validated by independent research from NIEER.
Where costs accumulate
You may be losing money through:
Hiring and training costs
Recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity. Estimated at ~$8,000 per teacher replaced—approximately 24% of median ECE salary per SHRM benchmarks.
Lost enrollment revenue
Teacher turnover disrupts classroom stability. Families notice instability and may disenroll, reducing tuition revenue each year.
Day-to-day staffing disruptions
Substitute coverage, administrative overhead, and director time spent on recruitment instead of program quality.
Actual results may vary based on your center's staffing model and implementation.
Most centers don't realize the full cost of turnover until they see it broken down
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Children thrive when teachers stay
In addition to improving retention, independent research from NIEER found that children in classrooms using Teaching Strategies demonstrated significantly greater growth across all developmental domains, including language, literacy, math, and social-emotional development.
National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
