CNA and patient care technician jobs in Escondido, CA

Each job shows the pay its employer posts; too few here post an hourly rate for a typical range. CNAs & PCTs pay across California is measured from more jobs.

By open jobs on this board: Palomar Health (9), Meadowbrook Village Christian Retirement Community (2) and Integral Senior Living (1).

Ranked by the hourly rates each one posts for the CNA and patient care technician jobs open here, an employer with few rates weighed toward the others' so one high posting never outranks many: Palomar Health (most often $23–$29.37 an hour, a median of $26.18 across 6 posted rates) and Meadowbrook Village Christian Retirement Community (a median of $21.20 an hour across 2 posted rates). Posted pay is the base range, before shift differentials and bonuses.

1 of the open CNA and patient care technician jobs here says so in its own posting: CNA needed in Escondido at Right at Home North County (...is determined by individual franchises) 401 (k) retirement plan Weekly pay Mobile clock in/out Work...).

1 of the open CNA and patient care technician jobs here says so in its own posting: Emergency Dept Tech at Palomar Health (Bilingual: Spanish. ...6 months related Preferred Experience 1 - 2 years related Bilingual (Spanish)...).

By their own postings here, tuition or student loan help: VITAS Healthcare (tuition help up to $4,000 a year). The employers compared.

Of the one nursing home in Escondido hiring on this site, by what each reports to Medicare (Oct 2026): Meadowbrook Village Christian Retirement Community (one aide for every 6.7 residents, posting a middle of $21.20 an hour). The middle nursing home in California has one aide on duty for every 9.3 residents. Every one is listed with its turnover and ratings.

Palomar Health Downtown Campus: 3 of 5 stars, 74% of patients said nurses always communicated well (Medicare, Jul 2026). Each one opens its employer's other hospitals and jobs. Patients' ratings of their care, not employees' of the jobs.

Palomar Home Health Services: no star rating (Medicare, Sep 2026). Each one opens its employer's other agencies and jobs. Patients' ratings of their care, not employees' of the jobs.

By each hospital's own report to Medicare (in 2022 pay periods, its own and contract staff together, before benefits), nursing aide hours averaged $16.57 at Palomar Health Downtown Campus, against $27.98 an hour across California's hospitals. An average over every hour, not one job's pay. Every California hospital.

State CNA certification for most roles; some hospitals train you or hire nursing students as techs. Each posting lists its own requirements.