Medication Aide Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

CaregiverHires had 1,124 open medication aide listings from 215 employers on November 6, 2026.

271 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 582 in the previous 30 days.

At least 26.2% of medication 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 medication aide listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was paid time off, in 58.4% of listings, followed by health insurance (56%).

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

To browse the openings themselves, see all medication aide listings.

BLS publishes no medication aide-only wage, so the figure here is for nursing assistants (SOC 31-1131), the nearest BLS occupation, used only as a labelled proxy because BLS has no medication aide occupation.

The median wage for that occupation was $20.32 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Nursing Assistants (SOC 31-1131), May 2025 (proxy)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $17.91 to $22.70 an hour.

Employers hiring medication aides on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $20.00 an hour across 98 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open medication aide listings on November 6, 2026, with 101 (9% of the national total).

Indiana followed with 91 (8.1%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with medication aide openings in Texas.

215 employers had open medication aide listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 39.4% of them.

139 employers (64.7%) had exactly one open medication aide listing.

BLS has no medication aide occupation; the nearest is nursing assistants (SOC 31-1131), used here only as a labelled proxy, which had 1,448,910 payroll jobs at a median of $20.32 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

BLS notes that in some states nursing assistants can earn an extra credential such as Certified Medication Assistant, which lets them give medications, and that whether an aide may give medications depends on training and state (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025).

Minnesota's Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board set a minimum wage of $23.50 an hour for trained medication aides in nursing homes from September 10, 2026, against $22.50 for certified nursing assistants (Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry).

Within the proxy group, nursing assistants earned a median of $18.99 an hour in continuing care retirement communities and assisted living and $20.67 in skilled nursing facilities in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

BLS projects the nursing assistant group to grow 2.6% from 2025 to 2035 with about 196,200 openings a year; the projection covers all nursing assistants, not medication aides alone (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid medication 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 medication 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 medication aide occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for nursing assistants (SOC 31-1131), the nearest occupation, shown only as a labelled proxy: they are not a count or wage of medication aides. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.