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

CaregiverHires had 8,021 open home health nurse listings from 336 employers on November 6, 2026.

1,168 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 3,002 in the previous 30 days.

At least 42.7% of home health nurse 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 nurse listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was paid time off, in 68.1% of listings, followed by health insurance (67.4%).

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

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

BLS publishes no home health nurse-only wage, so the figure here is for registered nurses in home health care services (SOC 29-1141, NAICS 621600), an industry figure for every RN on home health care payrolls, used because BLS has no home health nurse occupation.

The median wage for that occupation was $40.83 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141) in Home Health Care Services (NAICS 621600), May 2025 (industry estimate)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $37.62 to $48.66 an hour.

Texas had the most open home health nurse listings on November 6, 2026, with 1,082 (13.5% of the national total).

Florida followed with 631 (7.9%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with home health nurse openings in Texas.

336 employers had open home health nurse listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 49.3% of them.

111 employers (33%) had exactly one open home health nurse listing.

The largest single employer, Aveanna Healthcare, posted 29.5% of all home health nurse listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

Registered nurses in home health care services earned a median of $40.83 an hour ($84,930 a year) in May 2025 across 198,180 payroll jobs, below the $48.18 median for RNs in general medical and surgical hospitals (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

Across all industries, employers reported 3,379,720 registered nurses on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $46.90 an hour ($97,550 a year) (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1141).

BLS projects employment of registered nurses, self-employed included, to grow 5.6% from 2025 to 2035, from 3,465,400 to 3,660,100 jobs, with about 180,800 openings a year; the projection covers RNs in every setting, not home health alone (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

BLS expects registered nurses to remain in demand in home healthcare because many older people prefer to be treated at home (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025).

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses in home health care services earned a median of $30.57 an hour in May 2025 across 80,990 payroll jobs (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid home health nurse 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 nurse 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 home health nurse occupation. The pay figure on this page is for registered nurses (SOC 29-1141) employed in home health care services (NAICS 621600), which counts every RN on those payrolls, whatever their job; the workforce and projection figures cover RNs in every setting. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.