Salaries / Home Health Aide
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Home Health Aide salary
Home health and personal care aides help clients with daily living in their own homes, one of the fastest-growing occupations in the country.
Washington
Median annual (WA)
$39,000
Median hourly (WA)
$18.70
Washington figures are ESTIMATES derived from the national median and a state wage index, not official statistics. Live state data shows here as soon as the lookup succeeds.
National
Median annual
$34,000
Median hourly
$16.40
Typical range
$26,000 to $43,000
National source: National estimate (to be replaced by live BLS data). Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
The pay range, visually.
Low end (about the 10th percentile), median, and high end (about the 90th percentile).
By state, at a glance
These at-a-glance figures are estimates derived from the national median and a state wage index, shown to give a rough sense of local differences. Pick any state (here or in the selector above) to look up its real figures.
Your skills are a business
Ideas we have for people in healthcare.
The same experience that earns a paycheck as a home health aide can start a business. Here are real ideas from our marketplace that fit this field.
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.
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.
You could hire home health aides, not just be one.
We have a staffing calculator to price the work and a full course on how to start a staffing agency, so you can turn a field you already know into a business that puts other people to work.