Every working parent knows that it is staggeringly expensive to put a child through daycare—but it depends a lot on where you live.
The median cost of sending one child to daycare for five years is about $44,000 across the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Labor Department data. In 26 counties, the median cost for five years of daycare is more than $100,000.
U.S. median: $43,945
What’s the cost of five years of daycare today?
Search the map below to see how the median cost to send one child to daycare until kindergarten compares across the country.