The Challenge
Competition for early childhood education teachers is strong, and wage pressures are coming from previously unlikely sources. As a federally funded organization, OCHS needed to attract, motivate and retain talented and passionate individuals, as well as prepare for potential compliance changes coming from November 2023’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). Impressed by the compensation analysis services Wipfli provided at his previous organization, OCHS’s new executive director, Michael Patterson, brought the firm in to help.