Caregiver Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

CaregiverHires had 19,619 open caregiver listings from 1,017 employers on November 6, 2026.

3,298 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 10,628 in the previous 30 days.

At least 53.8% of caregiver listings were part-time on November 6, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit caregiver listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was flexible scheduling, in 50.4% of listings, followed by health insurance (30.2%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all caregiver listings.

BLS publishes no caregiver-only wage, so the figure here is for home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), a combined BLS occupation that counts non-medical caregivers together with home health aides.

The median wage for that occupation was $17.21 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides (SOC 31-1120), May 2025 (proxy)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $15.35 to $18.98 an hour.

Employers hiring caregivers on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $17.25 an hour across 794 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Pennsylvania had the most open caregiver listings on November 6, 2026, with 1,874 (9.6% of the national total).

Texas followed with 1,869 (9.5%).

1,017 employers had open caregiver listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 32.8% of them.

253 employers (24.9%) had exactly one open caregiver listing.

BLS has no caregiver occupation: it counts personal care aides, which it says are sometimes called caregivers, together with home health aides in one occupation, home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), and publishes no separate figure for either (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025).

Employers reported 4,305,810 home health and personal care aides on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $17.21 an hour ($35,800 a year); the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS, SOC 31-1120).

BLS projects employment of home health and personal care aides, self-employed included, to grow 18.1% from 2025 to 2035, from 4,677,100 to 5,524,400 jobs, with about 760,500 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

In May 2025, 2,274,140 home health and personal care aides worked in services for the elderly and persons with disabilities, the industry where most non-medical home care agencies are classified, at a median of $16.73 an hour, and 1,079,060 worked in home health care services at a median of $17.42 (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

Home health and personal care aides in continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities earned a median of $17.82 an hour in May 2025, across 265,100 payroll jobs (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

PHI estimates the U.S. direct care workforce at 5.8 million workers, including nearly 3.5 million home care workers and 714,000 workers in residential care homes (PHI Key Facts and FAQ, accessed October 2026).

PHI estimates there are at least 1.5 million Medicaid-funded independent providers, direct care workers employed by the people they support through publicly funded consumer-direction programs (PHI Key Facts and FAQ, accessed October 2026).

PHI reports median turnover in home care of nearly 75% in 2024, and notes that no comprehensive turnover measure exists for the direct care workforce as a whole.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid caregiver listing on CaregiverHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all caregiver jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no caregiver occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), which BLS publishes as one combined occupation covering non-medical caregivers and home health aides, so they are neither a count nor a wage of caregivers alone. Companion, live-in, private, family, respite and memory care caregiver listings are counted with this role. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed, which is why the 2025 projections base (4,677,100) is higher than the May 2025 payroll count (4,305,810).