Permanent recruiting for preschools and child care centers across Michigan.
Every staff member, substitute and unsupervised volunteer needs a MiRegistry account with a verified employment entry for your center within 30 days of hire. We ask candidates to have theirs ready so onboarding doesn’t stall.
Starting in 2025-26, PreK for All offers free pre-K to every Michigan 4-year-old regardless of income, so GSRP lead teachers are in demand at community sites as well as schools. They need a Michigan teaching certificate with a ZA, ZS, ZN or ZO endorsement, a bachelor’s in ECE or child development, or an elementary teaching bachelor’s plus a Preschool CDA. We recruit for those leads directly.
MiLEAP’s May 2025 licensing updates renamed child care staff members to teachers, updated the qualifications for program administrators, and let one leader manage more than one site. If you run several centers, that changes how you plan who covers each one.
Michigan has the 14th-largest child care center workforce in the country.
Private centers with paid staff across the state.
Average annual pay per child care employee in 2025, including part-time staff (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
We recruit for every role in Michigan centers, from lead and assistant teachers and floaters to cooks, assistant directors and center directors. Every hire is a permanent placement on your payroll.
Anywhere in the state. Recent searches have included Ann Arbor, Troy, Novi, South Lyon and Grand Rapids.
On roles we have recruited for in Michigan, posted teacher pay has ranged from about $15 to $23 an hour, and center director pay from $56,000 to $70,000 a year. Pay depends on the role, credentials and the school.
Directors must be 21 with a high school diploma or GED, plus a path such as a bachelor’s in ECE, or an associate or related degree with 18 ECE semester hours and 480 hours of experience. They also need administration training. See the full Michigan director rules.
A lead teacher must be 19 with a high school diploma or GED, plus experience and training, such as 1 year of experience and 15 hours of MiRegistry training, or a CDA, Montessori credential or associate degree. See the full Michigan teacher rules.
Under Mich. Admin. Code R 400.8222, effective May 2025, ratios are (max group size in parentheses): birth to 30 months 1:4 (12); 30 months to 3 years 1:8 (24); 3 to 4 years 1:10 (30); 4 years to school age 1:12 (40); school age 1:18 (54). The youngest child sets the ratio unless age groups are kept separate.
Great Start to Quality has five levels, from Maintaining Health and Safety to Demonstrating Quality. Every licensed program starts at the first level, GSRP state pre-K requires at least Enhancing Quality, and higher levels require the director and half of lead and assistant staff to hold MiRegistry Career Pathway levels.
We contact you within 24 hours of your request, and our sourcing team starts after a short intake call. Book a call to talk through your open roles.
We handle the search so you can run your school. From single classrooms to multi-site networks, we find the people who fit.