We used quarterly unemployment insurance (UI) wage data collected by the Illinois Department of Employment Security to identify two cohorts of childcare workers. The pandemic cohort had stable employment in the industry as of the fourth quarter of 2019. The prepandemic cohort had stable employment in the industry as of the fourth quarter of 2018. We examined one year of quarterly wage records for each cohort and categorized employment trajectories into five patterns. We compared how often these patterns appeared between the two cohorts to assess the pandemic’s impact on the labor force. (author abstract)