This fact sheet highlights findings from an Urban Institute study of early childhood educator compensation in the Washington, DC, region (the District of Columbia and areas of Virginia and Maryland), one of several studies commissioned by the Washington Region Early Care and Education Workforce Network to inform and support its efforts to help realize the recommendations in the Transforming the Workforce report. More generally, this report speaks to the ongoing debate over addressing persistently low ECE compensation as part of a broader move to professionalize the workforce and improve quality across diverse early learning settings. (author abstract)