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Home health aide salary

Open home health aide jobs post a median of $20 an hour, with the middle half paying $18.25–$22.25: about $41,600 a year full time. Measured from 249 jobs at 87 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$20
Median posted /hr
$18–$22
Middle half /hr
$41,600
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$17.21
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Home health aide jobs

What home health aides 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 249 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $10.50, the highest $58.68.

Posted on open jobs

$18.25–$22.25/hr

Middle half of 168 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $20. 54% of the 464 open home health aide jobs state an hourly rate. 7 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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Home health aide pay by employer

What each employer posts for home health aides, 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
BAYADA Home Health Care$18$15–$2629
UnitedHealth Group$19$13–$2717
Senior LIFE$19.50$17.30–$2511
TheKey$21$19–$238
Amedisys$18.75$14.50–$278
GBMC HealthCare$20.50$17.24–$23.917
Hackensack Meridian Health$18.75$18.68–$19.677
United Energy Workers Healthcare$18$16–$227
Compassus$23.50$16.06–$32.036
Presbyterian Homes & Services$22$21–$22.906
AFNB Home Care$10.75$10.50–$126
Fallon Health$20$20–$21.505
Giving Home Health Care$17.50$14–$205
Institute on Aging$23.25$21–$244
Vinfen$23$22.75–$23.324
Suncrest Health Services$21.75$20–$284
VNA of Florida$19.75$17–$224
Capital Health$19.50$17.50–$21.474
Erickson Senior Living$18.75$17–$214
Sanzie HealthCare Services$13$12–$144
Sutter Health$32$28.46–$45.513
Beth Israel Lahey Health$24.75$21–$28.263
Atlantic Health$23.75$18.50–$28.883
UPMC$23.25$18.59–$27.963
VNS Health$21$19.50–$223
Trinity Health$20.75$18.10–$22.503
Always Compassionate Home Care$20.25$18.65–$233
Rochester Regional Health$19.25$18.65–$203
Elara Caring$19$19.10–$23.583
All Ways Caring HomeCare$16$15–$17.803
By the Bay Health$28.75$26.30–$312
Catholic Health (Long Island)$25.75$20.50–$312
Cornerstone Healthcare$24.75$20–$282
Silverado$23.75$20–$272
BrightSpring Health Services$21$19–$232
Hudson Valley Hospice$21$19–$232
AtlantiCare$20$16.64–$23.302
Spring Oak Senior Living$20$19.24–$212
Mercy Haven$19.50$19.502
Kennedy Care$18.50$15–$222

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.

Home health aide 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$25.50$22.75–$27.75$16.50 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)18
Minnesota$22.25$22–$22.25$18.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Massachusetts$21.50$20–$23.50$19.67 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22
New York$20.50$19.25–$21.50$19.05 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)30
Maryland$20.50$19–$22$18.29 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17
New Jersey$20$19–$21.50$17.83 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)42
Pennsylvania$19.50$18.75–$20.50$14.14 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17
Ohio$18.50$17.75–$19$16.57 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12
Florida$18$17–$20$16.25 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22

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 home health aide pay

Where one employer posts both night and other home health aide jobs in the same state (3 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
GBMC HealthCare, MD$20.50 (2)$20.50 (5)
Trinity Health, NY$20.75 (1)$20.50 (2)
Compassus, OH$19.25 (1)$19.25 (1)

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

Home health aide 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.

5 open jobs from 2 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $45,300, the middle half $45,200 to $58,900, from $33,700 to $90,000 posted.

Home health aide specialties

What each specialty posts. A specialty's jobs also count in the home health aide figures above.

Best-paid open home health aide jobs

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

Every open job: Home health aide 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 ($20) is $2.79 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.

Home health aide salary: common questions

How much does a home health aide make an hour?

Open home health aide jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $20, with the middle half between $18.25–$22.25 (249 jobs from 87 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 home health aide make a year?

At the posted median of $20 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $41,600, and the middle half to $38,000 to $46,300. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 5 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $45,300.

Which states pay home health aides the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($25.50), Minnesota ($22.25) and Massachusetts ($21.50). The lowest: Florida ($18), Ohio ($18.50) and Pennsylvania ($19.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay home health aides the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Compassus ($23.50), Presbyterian Homes & Services ($22) and TheKey ($21). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift home health aides earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other home health aide jobs in the same state (3 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: 249 of 464 open home health aide jobs (54%) 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). Home health aide salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/home-health-aide

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