Home Health Aide Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

CaregiverHires had 4,588 open home health aide listings from 338 employers on November 6, 2026.

1,060 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 2,794 in the previous 30 days.

At least 30.5% of home health aide 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 home health aide listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was flexible scheduling, in 44.6% of listings, followed by health insurance (23%).

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

To browse the openings themselves, see all home health aide listings.

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

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

Employers hiring home health aides on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $18.00 an hour across 214 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

New Jersey had the most open home health aide listings on November 6, 2026, with 1,538 (33.5% of the national total).

Florida followed with 700 (15.3%).

338 employers had open home health aide listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 38.1% of them.

152 employers (45%) had exactly one open home health aide listing.

BLS publishes home health aides and personal care aides only as one combined occupation, home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), so there is no separate May 2025 wage or payroll count for home health aides (BLS OEWS).

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).

Home health and personal care aides working for home health care services earned a median of $17.42 an hour in May 2025 across 1,079,060 payroll jobs, against $17.82 in continuing care retirement communities and assisted living and $17.72 in skilled nursing facilities (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

Home health aides at Medicare-certified agencies must complete at least 75 hours of classroom and supervised practical training, including at least 16 hours of classroom training before at least 16 hours of supervised practical training (42 CFR 484.80, as of 2026).

The highest state medians for home health and personal care aides in May 2025 were in Washington ($22.95 an hour), Oregon ($21.35) and Rhode Island ($21.00), and the lowest were in Louisiana ($10.83) and Mississippi ($11.47) (BLS OEWS state estimates).

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

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all home health aide 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 separate home health aide figure. The BLS figures on this page are for home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), which BLS publishes as one combined occupation, so they also count personal care aides and non-medical caregivers. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.