Salaries / Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) salary
CNAs provide hands-on daily care in nursing homes, hospitals, and homes: bathing, feeding, moving, and monitoring patients.
Ohio · 2025
Median annual (OH)
$39,010
Median hourly (OH)
$18.76
Typical range (OH)
$35,060 to $46,570
Ohio source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS 2025.
National
Median annual
$42,260
Median hourly
$20.32
Typical range
$33,940 to $51,980
National source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS 2025. Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
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Start a Home Health Care Agency
Build a licensed agency that sends nurses, CNAs, and caregivers into clients' homes, billing private pay, insurance, or Medicaid for every hour of care.
Start a Non-Medical Senior Care Business
Companionship, errands, meals, and rides for aging adults. One of the fastest-growing demands in the country.
Start a Paid Family Caregiver Training and Employment Platform
Turn unpaid family care into a real, credentialed, reimbursed job. You become a licensed Medicaid provider agency under Structured Family Caregiving, train and employ the family member who is already doing the caring, and pass through a state-mandated share of the Medicaid reimbursement to them as wages. A supply-side marketplace for care, the way ride-hailing grew the supply of drivers, applied to a heavily regulated clinical labor market instead of an open consumer one.
Non-Medical Senior Companion Care
Provide the non-medical help older adults need to stay independent: company, light housekeeping, meal help, reminders, and a friendly presence, so families get peace of mind without a nursing agency.
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