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Caregiver salary

Open caregiver jobs post a median of $19 an hour, with the middle half paying $17–$21: about $39,500 a year full time. Measured from 975 jobs at 185 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$19
Median posted /hr
$17–$21
Middle half /hr
$39,500
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$17.21
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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What caregivers are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 975 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $10, the highest $40.22.

Posted on open jobs

$17–$21/hr

Middle half of 454 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $19. 61% of the 1,591 open caregiver jobs state an hourly rate. 11 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Caregiver pay by employer

What each employer posts for caregivers, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
TheKey$20.25$14.50–$30155
Sanzie HealthCare Services$12.25$12–$1584
All Ways Caring HomeCare$15$10–$27.5365
BAYADA Home Health Care$18.75$14–$3046
UnitedHealth Group$16.50$10–$2546
Benedictine$21.25$17–$29.5726
AFNB Home Care$11$10.50–$1525
Korean Women's Association/KWA$25.50$23.54–$27.2823
Suite Living Senior Care$21.50$20–$2723
BrightSpring Health Services$17.50$15–$2115
The Waters$20.50$17–$2414
RHA Health Services$15$15–$16.9113
Cogir Management, USA$20.25$17.50–$2512
Kisco Senior Living$19.25$16.25–$2512
Elara Caring$17.75$13.50–$23.5812
CiminoCare$17.75$16.50–$2011
Covenant Living$19$14.44–$21.5810
Halcyon Home$17.50$15–$2010
Silverado$21.50$16–$299
Fairview Health Services$25.75$20.57–$31.858
Sanford Health$18.75$14.50–$23.758
Caring Hearts of Georgia Health$14.50$14–$158
Transforming Age$23.50$18.58–$27.577
Reliable Home Care Providers$19$197
MaineTouch$18$17–$197
Avid Health at Home$16.50$16–$177
Jewish Family and Children's Services$24.25$23.50–$256
Rochester Regional Health$19.25$18.65–$206
Aging Well Health Care$18.50$17–$216
Living Roots$16$15–$176
Erickson Senior Living$21.25$14–$24.505
Compassus$20.50$20.50–$235
Personal Care Senior Living$20$205
Stage Coach$20$15–$215
Ciel Senior Living$18$17–$215
United Energy Workers Healthcare$18$17–$205
Seastar Senior Services$24.25$22–$254
Victory Programs$22.25$22.284
Avera Health$20.25$17.50–$23.504
Live Star Home Care$20$18–$244

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Caregiver pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
Washington$22.50$21–$25.50$22.95 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)52
Oregon$22.25$21.25–$23.50$21.35 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Massachusetts$21.50$20.50–$22.25$19.67 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)30
Maine$21.25$19.25–$22.25$18.55 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
California$21$19–$22.50$16.50 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)149
Minnesota$20.75$20–$22$18.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)86
Wisconsin$20$18.50–$21.25$17.47 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)24
Arizona$20$18.25–$21$17.51 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17
Colorado$19.75$18.25–$21$18.53 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)35
Illinois$19.50$18–$20.50$18.30 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)55
New York$19.25$18.50–$21$19.05 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)38
Maryland$19.25$19–$21.75$18.29 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Connecticut$19$18.75–$19.50$18.75 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Kansas$18.50$16.75–$18.75$15.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Missouri$18.25$16.25–$20.25$15.90 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)24
Virginia$18$17–$20$14.57 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)39
Pennsylvania$18$17.50–$20$14.14 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)24
Michigan$17.75$16.50–$19.50$16.83 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)34
Florida$17.25$16.50–$18.25$16.25 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)32
Texas$17$16–$18.50$11.65 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)38
North Carolina$16.50$15–$17.25$15.02 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)43
Tennessee$16.50$15.25–$17.50$15.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)23
Georgia$14.50$13.50–$16$14.07 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)132
South Carolina$14$13–$15$14.48 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)19
Louisiana$11.75$11–$12.75$10.83 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)19

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift caregiver pay

Where one employer posts both night and other caregiver jobs in the same state (39 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
All Ways Caring HomeCare, GA$14 (1)$14 (29)
Benedictine, MN$21.75 (5)$21 (19)
Suite Living Senior Care, MN$21.50 (4)$21.50 (19)
AFNB Home Care, LA$10.50 (1)$10.50 (16)
The Waters, MN$21.50 (2)$20 (12)
BAYADA Home Health Care, NC$15 (1)$16.50 (10)
BrightSpring Health Services, TX$16.75 (4)$17.50 (7)
Covenant Living, IL$19 (2)$19 (6)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Best-paid open caregiver jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Caregiver jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (31-1120)$13.00 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$15.35 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$17.21 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$18.98 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$21.65 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)4,305,810 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($19) is $1.79 above the BLS median ($17.21 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Caregiver salary: common questions

How much does a caregiver make an hour?

Open caregiver jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $19, with the middle half between $17–$21 (975 jobs from 185 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $17.21/hr ($35,800 a year) for home health and personal care aides in May 2025.

How much does a caregiver make a year?

At the posted median of $19 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $39,500, and the middle half to $35,400 to $43,700. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay caregivers the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: Washington ($22.50), Oregon ($22.25) and Massachusetts ($21.50). The lowest: Louisiana ($11.75), South Carolina ($14) and Georgia ($14.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay caregivers the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Fairview Health Services ($25.75), Korean Women's Association/KWA ($25.50) and Jewish Family and Children's Services ($24.25). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift caregivers earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other caregiver jobs in the same state (39 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 975 of 1,591 open caregiver jobs (61%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Home Health and Personal Care Aides (SOC 31-1120), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Home Health and Personal Care Aides by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Home Health and Personal Care Aides (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Caregiver salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/caregiver

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