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Medication aide salary

Open medication aide jobs post a median of $21.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $20–$23.50: about $44,700 a year full time. Measured from 97 jobs at 40 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$21.50
Median posted /hr
$20–$24
Middle half /hr
$44,700
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$20.32
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Medication aide jobs · A specialty of certified nursing assistant pay

What medication 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 97 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15.85, the highest $34.24.

Posted on open jobs

$20–$23.50/hr

Middle half of 72 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $21.50. 39% of the 250 open medication aide jobs state an hourly rate. 1 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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Medication aide pay by employer

What each employer posts for medication 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
Sanford Health$22$16–$2815
Spring Oak Senior Living$19.50$17–$259
Erickson Senior Living$22.75$17.05–$26.258
Woodlands Senior Living$23.25$18–$296
Cogir Management, USA$22.50$19–$306
Avera Health$24.25$19.75–$34.245
Covenant Living$22.75$19.13–$26.184
Cedarhurst$20.50$18–$244
Maine Veterans Homes$24.75$22.22–$27.103
Ignite Medical Resorts$24.25$21–$312
Avenues Recovery$21.50$20–$232
Byron Wellness Community$20.75$19.13–$22.402
Lifespace Communities$19.75$16.55–$22.722
Capital Health$18.75$16.75–$20.552
Westminster-Canterbury of Lynchburg$18$182
Bend Transitional Care$28$24.40–$31.451
Benedictine$26$25–$271
Mayo Clinic$24.75$20.21–$29.041
PrimeCare Medical$23.75$19–$28.501
The Delmar Gardens Family$23.50$18.50–$28.501
Christian Health Care Center$23$231
Gundersen Health System$22.50$22.601
Galloway Ridge$22.25$21.33–$23.231
Prime Healthcare$22$20–$23.751
Cody Regional Health$21$18.97–$23.271
Fundamental Healthcare$21$18.75–$231
Talbot Hospice Foundation$21$17–$251
Corewood Care$20.75$20–$21.501
Caraday Healthcare$20.50$19–$221
Clatsop Care Center Health District$20.50$17.50–$23.541
Monument Health$20.50$18.99–$21.831
PACS Group$20.50$19–$221
Ascension$20$17.52–$22.671
Baptist Home Society$20$18–$221
CommuniCare Health Services$19.75$19–$20.501
Heartview Foundation$19$17–$211
Behavioral Health Specialists$18.50$17–$201
Residence at Carlisle Management$18$181
New Communities$17.50$15.85–$191
Brookhaven Hospital$16$161

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.

Medication 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
New Jersey$23.50$21.50–$24.50$22.52 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Maine$23.25$22–$24.75$22.63 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Minnesota$22.50$22–$23.25$22.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)16
Maryland$21.25$21–$22.75$20.79 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9

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 medication aide pay

Where one employer posts both night and other medication aide jobs in the same state (6 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
Sanford Health, MN$22.25 (1)$20.75 (8)
Woodlands Senior Living, ME$25 (1)$23 (5)
Covenant Living, MN$22.75 (1)$22.75 (3)
Cogir Management, USA, WA$20 (1)$24.75 (2)
Spring Oak Senior Living, VA$19.25 (1)$19.75 (2)
Westminster-Canterbury of Lynchburg, VA$18 (1)$18 (1)

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

Best-paid open medication aide jobs

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

Every open job: Medication 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
Nursing Assistants (31-1131)$16.32 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)$17.91 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)$20.32 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)$22.70 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)$24.99 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)1,448,910 (source: BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($21.50) is $1.18 above the BLS median ($20.32 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Nursing Assistants, 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.

Medication aide salary: common questions

How much does a medication aide make an hour?

Open medication aide jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $21.50, with the middle half between $20–$23.50 (97 jobs from 40 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 $20.32/hr ($42,260 a year) for nursing assistants in May 2025.

How much does a medication aide make a year?

At the posted median of $21.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $44,700, and the middle half to $41,600 to $48,900. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay medication aides the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: New Jersey ($23.50), Maine ($23.25) and Minnesota ($22.50). The lowest: Maryland ($21.25), Minnesota ($22.50) and Maine ($23.25). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay medication aides the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Avera Health ($24.25), Woodlands Senior Living ($23.25) and Erickson Senior Living ($22.75). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift medication aides earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other medication aide jobs in the same state (6 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: 97 of 250 open medication aide jobs (39%) 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: Nursing Assistants (SOC 31-1131), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Nursing Assistants by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Nursing Assistants (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Medication aide salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/medication-aide

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