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Home Health Aides
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Job Numbers and Growth
The count of home health aides working in the US is about 787,000. Unemployment for this career is high compared to other careers.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
A government survey revealed that 24% of employees work only part of the time. Home health aides who work as their own boss represent 2% of the total.
Training and Education
Many employers require short-term on-the-job training from job applicants. Bachelor's degrees are held by 7% of employees. People with some college experience but no degree make up 37% of home health aides. The highest level of education for for 55% of workers was a high school diploma. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
There are comparatively more jobs of this type in Goldsboro (North Carolina), Fayetteville (North Carolina), and Hickory (North Carolina), and comparatively fewer in Gulfport (Mississippi), Champaign (Illinois), and Bowling Green (Kentucky).
The earning potential for home health aides appears to be highest in Vineland (New Jersey), Hartford (Connecticut), and Anchorage (Alaska), and lowest (comparatively speaking) in Pine Bluff (Arkansas), Brownsville (Texas), and Victoria (Texas).
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Home Health Aides: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Home Health Aides, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Home Health Aides are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Home Health Aides are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Anniston 130 $17,810 0.5 Alabama Birmingham 2,460 $18,650 0.7 Alabama Decatur 230 $17,340 0.7 Alabama Dothan 200 $17,830 0.6 Alabama Florence 390 $18,320 1.4 Alabama Gadsden 340 $16,970 1.9 Alabama Huntsville 1,260 $18,150 1 Alabama Mobile 1,230 $18,560 1.1 Alabama Montgomery 920 $16,760 0.9 Alabama Tuscaloosa 320 $17,110 0.6 Alaska Anchorage 1,030 $27,470 1 Arizona Flagstaff 280 $21,520 0.9 Arizona Kingman 140 $20,770 0.5 Arizona Phoenix 13,110 $21,410 1.1 Arizona Prescott 240 $24,700 0.7 Arizona Tucson 4,030 $22,210 1.7 Arizona Yuma 400 $20,520 1.1 Arkansas Fayetteville 510 $20,210 0.4 Arkansas Fort Smith 870 $16,670 1.2 Arkansas Jonesboro 160 $18,450 0.6 Arkansas Little Rock 1,600 $19,110 0.7 Arkansas Pine Bluff 230 $15,120 1.3 California Bakersfield 950 $20,230 0.6 California Chico 620 $20,410 1.5 California Fresno 1,510 $20,690 0.7 California Hanford 200 $21,460 1.3 California Madera 110 $20,330 0.6 California Merced 240 $19,190 0.7 California Modesto 730 $19,300 0.7 California Napa 370 $26,050 1 California Oakland 4,660 $23,190 0.7 California Oxnard 1,180 $22,910 0.6 California Redding 640 $20,690 1.7 California Riverside 4,550 $21,210 0.5 California Sacramento 3,270 $22,950 0.6 California Salinas 470 $22,780 0.5 California San Diego 4,520 $23,540 0.5 California San Francisco 2,690 $23,150 0.4 California San Jose 2,670 $24,080 0.4 California San Luis Obispo 340 $23,590 0.6 California Santa Ana 5,630 $23,070 0.6 California Santa Barbara 640 $23,890 0.6 California Santa Cruz 190 $23,560 0.4 California Santa Rosa 1,140 $23,210 1 California Stockton 1,140 $20,690 0.9 California Vallejo 830 $19,510 1.1 California Visalia 910 $25,440 1.1 Colorado Boulder 430 $25,630 0.4 Colorado Colorado Springs 990 $23,910 0.6 Colorado Denver 4,430 $24,420 0.5 Colorado Fort Collins 220 $21,050 0.3 Colorado Grand Junction 530 $18,360 1.6 Colorado Greeley 290 $22,110 0.7 Colorado Pueblo 480 $20,060 1.6 Connecticut Bridgeport 1,740 $28,530 0.6 Connecticut Hartford 4,770 $30,710 1.3 Connecticut New Haven 2,080 $25,680 1.2 Connecticut Norwich 930 $28,740 1.2 Connecticut Waterbury 750 $26,220 1.9 Delaware Wilmington 1,690 $25,610 0.8 District of Columbia Washington 5,610 $23,520 0.4 Florida Cape Coral 530 $23,970 0.4 Florida Deltona 1,080 $22,250 1.1 Florida Fort Lauderdale 4,080 $20,090 0.9 Florida Gainesville 300 $18,480 0.4 Florida Jacksonville 1,330 $20,400 0.3 Florida Lakeland 570 $19,360 0.5 Florida Miami 4,260 $19,870 0.7 Florida Naples 470 $23,760 0.6 Florida Ocala 430 $19,300 0.8 Florida Orlando 2,050 $23,840 0.3 Florida Palm Bay 780 $23,420 0.6 Florida Panama City 370 $19,630 0.9 Florida Pensacola 1,160 $18,940 1.3 Florida Port St Lucie 370 $20,510 0.5 Florida Punta Gorda 190 $19,640 0.9 Florida Sarasota 1,430 $24,390 0.9 Florida Sebastian 330 $21,230 1.2 Florida Tallahassee 570 $19,610 0.6 Florida Tampa 5,900 $22,880 0.7 Florida West Palm Beach 2,460 $21,070 0.7 Georgia Albany 370 $17,210 1.1 Georgia Athens 330 $18,990 0.7 Georgia Atlanta 5,970 $19,160 0.4 Georgia Augusta 1,000 $17,520 0.8 Georgia Macon 570 $17,220 1 Hawaii Honolulu 1,370 $27,000 0.5 Idaho Boise 870 $19,560 0.5 Idaho Idaho Falls 190 $20,790 0.7 Idaho Lewiston 100 $19,790 0.8 Idaho Pocatello 270 $21,100 1.7 Illinois Bloomington 410 $20,670 1 Illinois Champaign 80 $22,220 0.1 Illinois Chicago 17,890 $22,610 0.7 Illinois Decatur 140 $20,060 0.5 Illinois Peoria 450 $21,080 0.4 Illinois Rockford 530 $20,440 0.6 Indiana Columbus 410 $19,580 1.7 Indiana Elkhart 180 $23,500 0.2 Indiana Evansville 490 $20,690 0.5 Indiana Fort Wayne 1,690 $19,710 1.3 Indiana Gary 1,440 $22,340 0.8 Indiana Indianapolis 3,020 $22,280 0.5 Indiana Kokomo 60 $22,120 0.3 Indiana Lafayette 130 $20,850 0.3 Indiana Michigan City 80 $23,210 0.3 Indiana Muncie 440 $19,930 1.7 Indiana South Bend 900 $21,520 1.1 Indiana Terre Haute 140 $22,480 0.3 Iowa Ames 60 $24,280 0.3 Iowa Cedar Rapids 640 $22,970 0.8 Iowa Davenport 930 $21,170 0.8 Iowa Des Moines 1,420 $23,700 0.7 Iowa Dubuque 300 $20,400 1 Iowa Iowa City 550 $20,660 1.3 Iowa Sioux City 360 $20,060 0.9 Iowa Waterloo 830 $21,220 1.6 Kansas Lawrence 250 $22,060 1 Kansas Topeka 600 $20,340 0.9 Kansas Wichita 2,080 $19,750 1.1 Kentucky Bowling Green 40 $22,050 0.1 Kentucky Elizabethtown 70 $23,580 0.3 Kentucky Lexington 430 $20,770 0.3 Kentucky Louisville 920 $23,670 0.2 Louisiana Alexandria 650 $17,690 1.9 Louisiana Baton Rouge 1,510 $18,070 0.6 Louisiana Houma 180 $18,280 0.3 Louisiana Lafayette 1,390 $18,000 1.6 Louisiana Lake Charles 650 $16,310 1.3 Louisiana Monroe 850 $18,820 1.8 Louisiana New Orleans 2,590 $18,720 0.8 Louisiana Shreveport 1,260 $17,400 1.2 Maine Bangor 280 $20,960 0.8 Maine Lewiston 670 $22,660 2.4Maine Portland 1,840 $22,230 1.4 Maryland Baltimore 4,700 $24,470 0.6 Maryland Bethesda 2,830 $22,360 0.8 Maryland Cumberland 300 $18,650 1.6 Maryland Hagerstown 640 $19,730 1.1 Maryland Salisbury 380 $27,490 1.3 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 1,390 $26,090 2.3Massachusetts Boston 6,940 $26,720 0.6 Massachusetts Brockton 280 $26,950 0.5 Massachusetts Framingham 1,220 $26,420 1.2 Massachusetts Haverhill 480 $25,680 1.1 Massachusetts Lawrence 310 $24,360 0.9 Massachusetts Leominster 350 $23,350 1.2 Massachusetts Lowell 320 $25,860 0.4 Massachusetts New Bedford 210 $25,920 0.6 Massachusetts Pittsfield 530 $22,920 3Massachusetts Springfield 1,830 $24,440 1 Massachusetts Taunton 210 $25,670 0.8 Massachusetts Worcester 1,670 $26,460 1.1 Michigan Ann Arbor 1,080 $24,610 1.1 Michigan Battle Creek 390 $19,700 1.4 Michigan Bay City 620 $22,050 3.3Michigan Detroit 6,970 $20,030 1.5 Michigan Flint 1,380 $18,900 1.6 Michigan Grand Rapids 2,340 $21,650 1 Michigan Holland 360 $20,170 0.6 Michigan Jackson 140 $19,670 0.5 Michigan Kalamazoo 1,370 $20,260 1.6 Michigan Lansing 1,730 $19,530 1.4 Michigan Muskegon 760 $19,360 2.2Michigan Niles 70 $22,010 0.2 Michigan Saginaw 470 $19,370 1.1 Michigan Warren 8,430 $21,510 1.1 Minnesota Duluth 2,690 $21,920 3.5Minnesota Minneapolis 17,280 $24,660 1.5 Minnesota Rochester 1,710 $24,090 3.1Minnesota St Cloud 1,320 $20,730 2.1Mississippi Gulfport 100 $19,510 0.2 Mississippi Hattiesburg 140 $21,170 0.4 Mississippi Jackson 550 $19,470 0.3 Mississippi Pascagoula 70 $20,320 0.3 Missouri Columbia 450 $23,270 0.9 Missouri Jefferson City 150 $21,100 0.4 Missouri Joplin 470 $18,630 1 Missouri Kansas City 4,070 $21,290 0.6 Missouri Springfield 980 $17,870 0.8 Missouri St Joseph 320 $17,580 1.1 Missouri St Louis 5,890 $20,450 0.7 Montana Billings 660 $21,100 1.4 Montana Great Falls 310 $18,050 1.7 Montana Missoula 150 $20,280 0.5 Nebraska Lincoln 980 $24,170 1 Nebraska Omaha 2,570 $26,380 0.9 Nevada Carson City 120 $20,650 0.8 Nevada Las Vegas 2,960 $22,250 0.5 Nevada Reno 900 $20,830 0.7 New Hampshire Manchester 370 $22,710 0.6 New Hampshire Nashua 310 $22,650 0.4 New Hampshire Portsmouth 50 $27,030 0.2 New Jersey Camden 1,950 $24,470 0.6 New Jersey Edison 2,840 $23,600 0.4 New Jersey Newark 6,200 $22,930 0.9 New Jersey Ocean City 350 $22,910 1.5 New Jersey Trenton 910 $24,600 0.7 New Jersey Vineland 360 $35,530 1.1 New Mexico Albuquerque 3,580 $20,360 1.4 New Mexico Farmington 170 $23,240 0.6 New Mexico Las Cruces 90 $20,340 0.3 New Mexico Santa Fe 640 $23,190 1.8 New York Albany 4,570 $24,650 1.6 New York Binghamton 1,220 $26,620 1.9 New York Buffalo 6,420 $23,080 1.8 New York Elmira 150 $25,870 0.8 New York Glens Falls 760 $26,830 2.5New York Ithaca 500 $23,690 2.1New York Nassau 14,230 $23,770 1.7 New York New York 86,460 $21,690 2.6New York Poughkeepsie 3,550 $27,330 2.4New York Rochester 6,360 $24,380 2 New York Syracuse 2,380 $24,880 1.2 New York Utica 1,610 $28,570 2.1North Carolina Asheville 3,590 $21,990 3.2North Carolina Burlington 1,140 $19,730 3.4North Carolina Charlotte 9,800 $21,370 1.7 North Carolina Durham 3,450 $22,590 2 North Carolina Fayetteville 4,060 $18,780 5.5North Carolina Goldsboro 1,600 $17,640 7.8North Carolina Greensboro 6,040 $20,410 2.5North Carolina Greenville 2,050 $18,360 4.9North Carolina Hickory 5,070 $21,750 5North Carolina Jacksonville 680 $18,090 3North Carolina Raleigh 7,210 $21,890 2.2North Carolina Rocky Mount 1,460 $18,840 4.4North Carolina Wilmington 2,390 $20,120 2.7North Carolina Winston Salem 4,150 $20,760 3.1North Dakota Bismarck 310 $22,170 1 North Dakota Fargo 520 $21,620 0.7 North Dakota Grand Forks 550 $20,340 2Ohio Akron 3,180 $21,210 1.5 Ohio Canton 2,330 $18,400 2.2Ohio Cincinnati 6,060 $22,150 0.9 Ohio Cleveland 12,030 $20,410 1.7 Ohio Columbus 11,280 $21,100 1.9 Ohio Dayton 3,140 $21,290 1.3 Ohio Lima 540 $20,730 1.8 Ohio Mansfield 660 $19,380 2.2Ohio Sandusky 460 $21,030 2.4Ohio Springfield 730 $19,920 2.8Ohio Toledo 3,430 $20,050 1.7 Ohio Youngstown 2,740 $18,860 1.9 Oklahoma Lawton 200 $18,920 1 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1,240 $22,510 0.3 Oklahoma Tulsa 3,030 $18,630 1.1 Oregon Bend 450 $21,990 1.1 Oregon Corvallis 220 $20,730 1.3 Oregon Eugene 1,450 $20,420 1.6 Oregon Medford 580 $20,710 1.2 Oregon Portland 5,250 $21,490 0.8 Oregon Salem 990 $19,920 1.1 Pennsylvania Allentown 2,920 $22,000 1.4 Pennsylvania Altoona 520 $20,210 1.5 Pennsylvania Erie 2,000 $20,480 2.6Pennsylvania Harrisburg 1,930 $21,640 1 Pennsylvania Johnstown 620 $19,170 1.9 Pennsylvania Lancaster 1,720 $20,790 1.2 Pennsylvania Lebanon 300 $20,590 1.2 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 18,380 $23,460 1.5 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 12,880 $21,230 1.7 Pennsylvania Reading 1,250 $22,320 1.2 Pennsylvania Scranton 2,720 $20,660 1.7 Pennsylvania State College 780 $19,950 2.4Pennsylvania Williamsport 800 $19,420 2.8Pennsylvania York 940 $22,320 0.8 Rhode Island Providence 5,780 $26,470 1.6 South Carolina Anderson 210 $19,020 0.6 South Carolina Charleston 1,540 $21,010 0.8 South Carolina Columbia 2,670 $19,160 1.2 South Carolina Florence 970 $19,780 2 South Carolina Greenville 1,240 $19,660 0.6 South Carolina Spartanburg 580 $18,180 0.8 South Carolina Sumter 330 $16,450 1.7 South Dakota Rapid City 70 $20,240 0.2 South Dakota Sioux Falls 230 $25,930 0.3 Tennessee Chattanooga 1,320 $22,000 0.9 Tennessee Cleveland 90 $18,860 0.5 Tennessee Jackson 560 $18,910 1.7 Tennessee Johnson City 390 $17,160 0.9 Tennessee Kingsport 370 $19,310 0.5 Tennessee Knoxville 1,640 $20,950 0.8 Tennessee Memphis 2,100 $19,370 0.5 Tennessee Nashville 3,930 $19,330 0.8 Texas Abilene 710 $15,720 2 Texas Amarillo 680 $15,730 1.1 Texas Austin 3,180 $19,480 0.6 Texas Beaumont 1,740 $16,320 1.8 Texas Brownsville 3,760 $14,530 5Texas Corpus Christi 3,440 $18,210 3.1Texas Dallas 7,530 $22,180 0.5 Texas El Paso 1,370 $18,220 0.8 Texas Fort Worth 1,910 $22,890 0.3 Texas Houston 10,890 $19,220 0.6 Texas Longview 470 $20,090 0.8 Texas Lubbock 770 $19,320 1 Texas Mcallen 2,360 $18,480 1.7 Texas Midland 350 $18,140 0.9 Texas San Angelo 160 $17,800 0.7 Texas San Antonio 5,370 $17,490 1 Texas Sherman 170 $25,650 0.8 Texas Texarkana 640 $15,530 2.1Texas Tyler 1,820 $19,920 3.4Texas Victoria 590 $14,590 2.3Texas Waco 1,260 $20,800 2.2Texas Wichita Falls 500 $17,250 1.5 Utah Logan 230 $20,430 0.9 Utah Ogden 1,370 $20,910 1.1 Utah Provo 930 $20,620 0.9 Utah Salt Lake City 2,650 $21,540 0.7 Utah St George 480 $21,660 1.8 Vermont Burlington 430 $21,510 0.6 Virginia Blacksburg 100 $19,530 0.3 Virginia Charlottesville 240 $20,740 0.4 Virginia Danville 260 $18,700 1.4 Virginia Harrisonburg 270 $21,130 0.9 Virginia Lynchburg 550 $19,240 0.9 Virginia Richmond 3,870 $19,350 1 Virginia Roanoke 630 $20,220 0.6 Virginia Virginia Beach 2,900 $19,230 0.6 Virginia Winchester 120 $23,850 0.4 Washington Bellingham 520 $22,170 1.1 Washington Bremerton 410 $21,830 0.8 Washington Longview 140 $21,340 0.8 Washington Seattle 5,140 $24,550 0.5 Washington Spokane 1,530 $20,910 1.2 Washington Wenatchee 290 $22,200 1.3 West Virginia Charleston 1,300 $16,500 1.5 West Virginia Huntington 980 $17,430 1.4 West Virginia Morgantown 250 $16,330 1 West Virginia Parkersburg 450 $17,190 1.1 West Virginia Weirton 420 $18,870 1.8 West Virginia Wheeling 660 $17,880 1.8 Wisconsin Appleton 390 $20,600 0.6 Wisconsin Eau Claire 840 $21,080 1.9 Wisconsin Fond 330 $22,250 1.4 Wisconsin Green Bay 860 $22,290 0.8 Wisconsin Janesville 160 $20,910 0.4 Wisconsin La Crosse 370 $22,790 0.9 Wisconsin Madison 1,940 $24,090 0.9 Wisconsin Milwaukee 6,280 $21,690 1.1 Wisconsin Oshkosh 860 $24,430 1.7 Wisconsin Racine 550 $20,200 1.2 Wisconsin Sheboygan 440 $19,910 1.4 Wisconsin Wausau 310 $21,410 0.8
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