Minnesota's R.E.E.T.A.I.N. (Retaining Early Educators Through Attaining Incentives Now) was created by Child Care Aware (CCA) of Minnesota in 2002 to support the retention of committed and highly qualified early childhood education (ECE) teachers and providers. Child care providers are among some of the lowest paid workers in the in the country; because of this, retaining highly qualified providers can be challenging (Whitebook, McLean, Austin, & Edwards, 2019). Once providers obtain higher educational degrees (e.g., attain a bachelor's or master's degree), they may leave the field in search of higher wages. To address retention difficulties, R.E.E.T.A.I.N. offers two types of salary bonuses to qualified providers: one for center-based providers and one for home-based providers. R.E.E.T.A.I.N. is intended to complement Minnesota's Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Early Childhood® (T.E.A.C.H.) program by creating a professional development pathway for early childhood providers across the state. T.E.A.C.H. is a nationwide professional development program that provides continuing education supports and tuition assistance to early childhood and school-age care providers. CCA of Minnesota implemented R.E.E.T.A.I.N. bonuses as a way to encourage T.E.A.C.H. alumni and other highly qualified providers to remain in the field. While the R.E.E.T.A.I.N. bonus is awarded to many former T.E.A.C.H. recipients, it is not a requirement for R.E.E.T.A.I.N. recipients to have gone through the T.E.A.C.H. program. Following a yearlong planning process, Child Care Aware began accepting their first R.E.E.T.A.I.N. bonus applications in fall 2003. The program initially targeted specific counties that already had functioning T.E.A.C.H. programs, and within the first five years R.E.E.T.A.I.N. had spread statewide. While data from 2003-2012 is limited, Child Trends reports that the number of applicants has doubled since 2013 (Shaw et al., 2018). To date, more than 2,000 child care providers with degrees and credentials have received the R.E.E.T.A.I.N. bonus. According to the most recent data available, among the 99 educators who received the R.E.E.T.A.I.N. bonus in 2018, the average bonus was $2,323 (Shaw et al., 2018). This spotlight provides information for Financial Incentives, R.E.E.T.A.I.N. Requirements and eligibility, funding, successes and challenges.