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What child and youth workers make
Typical
$54,000
Group home, new grad
$40,000
School board or hospital, senior
$75,000
Job Bank's national median is $26 an hour, about $54,000 a year full time, with a spread of $19 to $36 an hour. Job Bank pools child and youth workers with other social and community service workers, so this is a broad estimate. Alberta's own survey puts the average at about $25.50 an hour.