Child Care Home, Family Licensing
States Licensed
44
of 50 states and D.C.
Burden Rank
70th
for average burdens 1st is worst
Combined Rank
27th
for states licensed x average burdens 1st is worst
Change from 2017 to 2022, if any:
- ↑
- Burden increased
- ↓
- Burden decreased
- ↕
- Mixed burden change
- N
- New license
- E
- Eliminated license
2022 Licensing Burden Rank
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Family child care homes attend to children at the operator’s residence and perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing and overseeing play. This report looks at what is required to run a child care business out of one’s home only.2022 Snapshot
- 7 unlicensed states
- Days lost range from 0 (7 states) to 732 (Mississippi)
- Fees range from $0 (Montana, Utah) to $481 (Nevada)
- 5 states require 1+ exam
- 42 states set minimum age
- 23 states set minimum grade
Changes Since 2017
- No licenses created or removed
- Fees changed most often and usually increased; 16 states increased days lost to education and experience, while 4 reduced it
- Burden rank stayed the same because of small net education and experience reductions; combined rank improved 2 spots, largely because of burden changes in similarly ranked occupations
2022 Licensing Burden in Detail
Data Notes: 2022 data collected between February 3, 2020, and March 18, 2022. Fees include charges for application review and license issuance; exams; background checks, credit reports and fingerprinting; recovery fund contributions; third-party certification; and certain fees for training courses. Calendar days lost were estimated based on required education and experience; except for amounts smaller than one day, days lost are rounded to whole days and thus may not reflect very small changes between 2017 and 2022. Appendix A details methods for estimating days lost and calculating burden ranks. Complete data, including revised 2017 data, are available at https://ij.org/report/license-to-work-3/ltw3-data/.