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Direct support professional pay at Community Options

Community Options posts for direct support professionals, a median of across 47 open jobs that state their pay, $2.02 below the other employers post. Read from Community Options's own job board.

The jobs themselves: Community Options jobs · Direct support professional pay nationwide · About Community Options

What direct support professionals are paid at Community Options

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint).

Median $17.50 an hour. Middle half $16 to $18. Tap a bar for its count.

Posted hourly rates of 47 open jobs at Community Options. Lowest posted $12, highest $20.25.

Posted on open jobs at Community Options

$16–$18/hr

Middle half of the employer's 47 distinct posted rates, median $17.50. 90% of the 52 open direct support professional jobs at Community Options state an hourly rate.

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Every range Community Options posts

Each distinct hourly range on its open jobs, with how many jobs post it. Pay differs by unit, shift and experience.

Community Options direct support professional pay by state

A state's name opens what every employer posts for direct support professionals there, when enough do.

Against other employers

Community Options's own jobs beside every other employer's rates for direct support professionals (each of their advertised ranges once).

Community Options

$17.50/hr median

Middle half $16–$18, from 47 jobs stating pay.

319 other employers

$19.52/hr median

Middle half $18–$21, from 2,111 jobs stating pay.

Best-paid open direct support professional jobs at Community Options

Its open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight.

Direct support professional pay at Community Options: common questions

How much does Community Options pay direct support professionals?

Community Options's open direct support professional jobs post $12–$20.25 an hour, a median of $17.50 over 47 jobs that state pay (each job counted once). Full time that is about $36,400 a year. Postings state a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses.

Does Community Options pay direct support professionals more than other employers?

Its posted median ($17.50) is $2.02 below the median of 319 other employers' rates for direct support professionals ($19.52, middle half $18–$21). Pay differs by state, so compare within a state where the state table allows.

Where does Community Options pay direct support professionals the most?

By the median of its jobs in each state: Utah ($18.50, 3 jobs), New Jersey ($18, 7 jobs) and New York ($18, 5 jobs).

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 47 of 52 open direct support professional jobs at Community Options (90%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none; "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out.

Other pay at Community Options

Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used, a range at its midpoint, every job of the employer counted once. The other employers' figures count each of their advertised ranges once. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates far from the occupation's median are left out. An employer has a page while it states a rate on at least 5 open jobs in the occupation. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own careers site, published 6 Nov 2026

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CareJobs.Now. (2026). Direct support professional pay at Community Options. Data as of 6 Nov 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/direct-support-professional/community-options

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