The 2017-18 Child Care Market Rate Survey was undertaken to determine the prices that licensed, registered, and permitted child care providers charge parents for child care throughout New York State, and to use that data as the basis for establishing payment rate ceilings for the New York State Child Care Block Grant (NYSCCBG) subsidy program for low-income families (commonly referred to as “the market rates”). The market rates are a ceiling for state and federal reimbursement for payments for child care services. Section 410-x(4) of the Social Services Law provides that the amount of payments for child care services under the NYSCCBG must be the actual cost of care up to the applicable market rate. It should be noted that the rates reported by child care providers are the prices that parents are charged for care. (author abstract)