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Community health worker salary

Open community health worker jobs post a median of $25.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $22.25–$28.25: about $53,000 a year full time. Measured from 73 jobs at 48 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$25.50
Median posted /hr
$22–$28
Middle half /hr
$53,000
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$24.93
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Community health worker jobs

What community health workers 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 73 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $16, the highest $47.70.

Posted on open jobs

$22.25–$28.25/hr

Middle half of 57 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $25.50. 41% of the 176 open community health worker jobs state an hourly rate.

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Community health worker pay by employer

What each employer posts for community health workers, 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
CVS Health$28.75$18.50–$42.359
Mass General Brigham$25$23.51–$29.795
UnitedHealth Group$28$20–$36.444
Rochester Regional Health$21.75$19.50–$23.813
Southeastern Michigan Health Association$21.50$19–$243
Cleveland Clinic$18.50$18.503
Trinity Health$25.25$21.50–$28.652
Essentia Health$24$19.28–$28.922
Ibero-American Action League$20$202
Sinai Chicago$19.75$17–$22.592
Alameda Health System$47.75$47.701
Asian Health Services$34.50$33.97–$35.221
Beth Israel Lahey Health$33.50$28.50–$38.361
Legacy Health$33$27.12–$38.771
Kaiser Permanente$32.75$29.83–$35.821
Cedars-Sinai$31.25$25–$37.741
AltaMed Health Services$30.25$26.91–$33.531
Wellness and Equity Alliance$30$25–$351
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital$29.25$23.32–$34.971
North Star Health$29$26–$321
Emanate Health$28.75$23–$34.501
Inova$28.25$21.49–$35.031
CommonSpirit Health$27.75$23–$32.491
Loma Linda University Health$27.25$25.88–$28.571
University of Kansas Medical Center$26.75$22.26–$31.151
Brown University Health$26.50$19.97–$32.961
Fairview Health Services$26.25$21.84–$30.831
Exceptional Parents Unlimited$26$25–$271
Carle Health$25.75$19.74–$31.981
Northwestern Medicine$25.75$21.85–$29.501
UMass Memorial Health$25.50$18.24–$32.821
UPMC$25$19.80–$30.401
St Jude Neighborhood Health$24.75$23–$26.681
BJC HealthCare$23.75$18.25–$29.261
Comprehensive Community Health Centers$23.50$22–$251
North Country Family Health Center$23.25$23.271
Arkansas Children's$23$20.50–$25.601
Renown Health$22.50$19.16–$26.041
Calvert Health System$22.25$18.50–$261
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center$22.25$19.82–$24.621

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.

Community health worker 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
California$27.75$25.75–$30.25$27.91 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13
New York$21.75$19.75–$23.75$27.95 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11

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).

Community health worker jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

13 open jobs from 3 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $44,300, the middle half $43,800 to $44,400, from $34,820 to $51,950 posted.

Best-paid open community health worker jobs

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

Every open job: Community health worker 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
Community Health Workers (21-1094)$18.66 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)$21.94 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)$24.93 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)$30.07 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)$37.11 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)61,660 (source: BLS OEWS, Community Health Workers, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($25.50) is $0.57 above the BLS median ($24.93 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Community Health Workers, 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.

Community health worker salary: common questions

How much does a community health worker make an hour?

Open community health worker jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $25.50, with the middle half between $22.25–$28.25 (73 jobs from 48 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 $24.93/hr ($51,850 a year) for community health workers in May 2025.

How much does a community health worker make a year?

At the posted median of $25.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $53,000, and the middle half to $46,300 to $58,800. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 13 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $44,300.

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: 73 of 176 open community health worker jobs (41%) 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: Community Health Workers (SOC 21-1094), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Community Health Workers by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Community Health Workers (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Community health worker salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/community-health-worker

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