Home Health Aide Salary Calculator

1. Leave the pay type on hourly rate and enter the base rate your agency or employer pays.
2. Enter regular hours, weeks worked, and any average overtime hours with the multiplier you are paid.
3. Read your gross pay per year, month and week, then the BLS percentile. Enter a second offer to compare two agencies.

What each result tells you:

The default is the BLS median rate of $17.21 an hour, which comes to $35,796.80 for a 40 hour week over 52 weeks.

A home health aide salary calculator is a tool that works out gross pay from an hourly rate and a schedule, then measures the rate against official wage statistics for aides.

The benchmark is the Bureau of Labor Statistics code 31-1120, Home Health and Personal Care Aides. BLS states that this occupation includes two older codes, 31-1121 Home Health Aides and 31-1122 Personal Care Aides. BLS publishes one set of wages for the combined group. Every figure on this page covers both kinds of aide together.

These aides monitor people with disabilities or chronic illnesses and help them with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and meals. Under the direction of a nurse or other practitioner, home health aides may be allowed to give medication or check vital signs.

The tool adds no premium for certification, client type, live-in work or years of service. BLS publishes no national multipliers for those, so the calculator does not invent them.

The calculator totals straight-time pay and overtime pay for the year, then finds where your base rate falls among the BLS wage percentiles.

1. Rate. The hourly rate is used directly. A salary is divided by regular hours times weeks.
2. Overtime. Overtime hours are paid at the rate times your multiplier. Federal law sets a minimum of time and one-half after 40 hours in a workweek for covered, nonexempt employees. The overtime pay calculator covers a single pay period in detail.
3. Periods. Monthly pay is the annual total divided by 12. Weekly pay is the annual total divided by weeks worked.
4. Benchmark. A rate of $16.50 falls between the 25th percentile of $15.35 and the median of $17.21. Interpolation puts it near the 40th percentile.

BLS wages cover straight-time pay only. Overtime pay, shift differentials and weekend premium pay are excluded, which is why the percentile ignores your extra hours.

An agency aide earns $16.50 an hour for 40 regular hours a week. Long client days add an average of 8 overtime hours a week at time and one-half. She works 50 weeks a year.

1. Straight-time pay: $16.50 x 40 x 50 = $33,000.00.
2. Overtime rate: $16.50 x 1.5 = $24.75 an hour.
3. Overtime pay: $24.75 x 8 x 50 = $9,900.00.
4. Annual gross: $42,900.00. Monthly gross: $3,575.00. Weekly gross in a worked week: $858.00.
5. Base rate against BLS: -$0.71 an hour against the median, or -4.1%.

Overtime supplies 23.1 percent of her gross pay. Her base rate is still below the national median, and that is the number BLS measures.

Home health and personal care aides earned a median of $17.21 an hour in May 2025, or $35,800 a year. The mean was $17.36 an hour, or $36,120 a year.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 31-1120 Home Health and Personal Care Aides, national estimates. Read on 2026-10-02. BLS published a dollar figure for every percentile of this occupation.

These are combined figures for home health aides and personal care aides. BLS counts 4,305,810 wage and salary jobs in the group. The 90th percentile is $8.65 an hour above the 10th percentile.

Employer Type

Individual and family services employ 51 percent of aides and paid a median of $34,900 a year. Home healthcare services employ 23 percent and paid $36,230, which is $1,330 more.

Highest Paying Industries

State government pays the highest hourly mean, $22.80. The other industries in the top five are not typical care employers.

State

Washington pays the highest state mean wage at $23.18 an hour. California has the most aide jobs, 970,150.

Hours and Schedules

BLS says most aides work full time, although part-time work is common, and that evening and weekend hours depend on client needs. Hours change annual pay far more than small differences in the rate.

Training and State Rules

Aides in certified home health or hospice agencies must complete formal training and pass a standardized test. Some states require a license or certification. BLS publishes no wage by certification status.

Home health and personal care aides earn $3.11 an hour less than nursing assistants at the median, $17.21 against $20.32. Nursing assistants work in health or nursing facilities and have a separate BLS code.

Source: BLS OEWS national estimates, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

The aide median is $1,270 below the $37,070 median for the wider group of aides, nursing assistants, orderlies and psychiatric aides, and 29.8 percent below the $50,980 median for all occupations.

Comparing Two Agencies

Enter each rate with the hours on offer. At 32 hours a week, $17.60 an hour pays $3,078.40 more a year than $15.75 and moves the rate from the 30th to the 56th percentile.

Planning Around Part-Time Hours

At the median rate for 25 hours a week, annual gross pay is $22,373.00. Change the hours to see what an extra client adds.

Weighing Private Work Against Agency Work

An aide who works for clients as an independent contractor pays self-employment tax on net earnings. The self-employment tax calculator estimates that cost. The BLS percentiles cover wage and salary employees only.

Checking a Salaried Offer

A salary of $34,000 for a 40 hour week equals $16.35 an hour, near the 38th percentile.

Aides typically need a high school diploma or equivalent, and some positions do not require it. Training is short-term and often on the job. It covers personal hygiene, vital signs, infection control and basic nutrition.

BLS projects employment to grow 18 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for all occupations. That is 847,300 new jobs, for a total of 5,524,400. About 760,500 openings are projected each year.

Federal overtime rules for home care have a special history. The law has exemptions for companionship services and for live-in domestic service employees. A 2013 Department of Labor rule stopped third party employers, such as home care agencies, from claiming them. On July 2, 2025 the Department proposed returning to the earlier 1975 regulations. Its direct care page showed that proposal, not a final rule, when read on 2026-10-02. Check the current status with the Department or your state labor office.

1. Treating the BLS Figure as Home Health Aides Only

The data combines home health aides and personal care aides. The national figures cannot be split.

2. Comparing Private Household Pay with the Survey

The BLS survey does not cover household workers or the self-employed. An aide paid directly by a family is outside the data.

3. Counting Unpaid Travel as Paid Hours

Enter only the hours on your pay stub. Unpaid time between clients lowers your real hourly return.

4. Averaging Overtime Across Two Weeks

Federal overtime is counted one workweek at a time. Averaging hours over two or more weeks is not permitted.

5. Assuming Overtime Always Applies

Home care has specific federal exemptions, and the rules were under review in 2025. Confirm your status before you rely on the overtime result.

6. Using a Nursing Assistant Wage as the Benchmark

Nursing assistants are a different occupation with a median of $20.32 an hour.

The gross pay arithmetic is exact, and the benchmark is a sample estimate. BLS lists a relative standard error of 0.3 percent for the mean wage and 0.3 percent for employment in this occupation.

Home health and personal care aides earned a median of $17.21 an hour in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 25th percentile was $15.35 and the 75th percentile was $18.98. BLS reports the two kinds of aide together.

The mean annual wage was $36,120 in May 2025, and the median was $35,800, for home health and personal care aides combined. Both figures assume a full-time year of 2,080 hours.

No. BLS publishes one series, code 31-1120, that includes both home health aides and personal care aides. The wage tables do not separate them.

Fifteen dollars an hour is below the national median. It sits near the 23rd percentile and equals $31,200.00 over a 2,080 hour year.

Twenty dollars an hour is high for the occupation. It sits near the 81st percentile nationally and equals $41,600.00 over a 2,080 hour year.

Washington has the highest mean wage at $23.18 an hour in the BLS May 2025 data. Oregon, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Massachusetts follow.

It depends on the employer and the law that applies. Federal law requires time and one-half after 40 hours in a workweek for covered, nonexempt employees, with specific exemptions for companionship services and live-in domestic service. State law may give more.

Yes, at the median. Nursing assistants earned $20.32 an hour in May 2025, which is $3.11 more than home health and personal care aides.

No. The BLS survey covers wage and salary employees of establishments. It does not cover household workers or the self-employed.

A part-time aide at the median rate of $17.21 earns $22,373.00 a year for 25 hours a week, before tax.

Yes. BLS projects 18 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average, with about 760,500 openings each year.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Choose May 2025 and select 31-1120 Home Health and Personal Care Aides for the national wage percentiles, mean wage, employment, and industry and state tables. Read 2026-10-02.
• BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Home Health and Personal Care Aides (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Duties, entry education, training, median pay by industry and the 2025 to 2035 outlook. Read 2026-10-02.
• BLS OEWS frequently asked questions (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Defines wages as straight-time gross pay without overtime or shift differentials, and names who the survey covers. Read 2026-10-02.
• Overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division). Time and one-half the regular rate after 40 hours in a workweek for covered, nonexempt employees. Read 2026-10-02.
• Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to direct care workers (US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division). The companionship and live-in exemptions, the 2013 rule and the July 2025 proposed rule. Read 2026-10-02.