Personal Care

Adult Day Care Workers

SOC 39-9021

Provide care and activities for older adults at day programs.

The job

Median pay

$36k

$32k to $39k typical range

BLS figure for Home Health and Personal Care Aides

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+18% projected

BLS figure for Home Health and Personal Care Aides

Openings a year

761k

BLS figure for Home Health and Personal Care Aides

Typical education

High school

Our model

AI displacement risk

Moderate

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

8/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

26th pct

More exposed than 26% of occupations · modeled estimate

Future-proof

65/100

At a glance

The AI read on Adult Day Care Workers: 26th percentile exposure, moderate displacement risk, 8/100 working with AI, tilting toward AI replacing tasks. For Adult Day Care Workers, the typical entry route is a high school diploma. This occupation has no wage or outlook of its own in the BLS tables; the figures above are borrowed or estimated, so the summary does not quote them. On the modeled AI scale, this is 33 points lower than Manicurists & Pedicurists.

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Where Home Health and Personal Care Aides pays mostWashington leads at $48k; all states are listed below Find careers like itOpen the map at Adult Day Care Workers and explore its neighbours See open jobsAdult Day Care Workers roles hiring now Learn the skillsCourses for Adult Day Care Workers, who lean most on activity planning Real pay & reviewsSelf-reported pay and reviews on Glassdoor

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Key skills

Activity planning
Patience
Compassion
Communication
Reliability

Pay and jobs by state: Home Health and Personal Care Aides

Figures for Home Health and Personal Care Aides. BLS reports no numbers for Adult Day Care Workers on its own; these are BLS's figures for that occupation. BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	970,150	53.3	1.9×	$34k
New York	663,140	68.4	2.5×	$40k
Texas	329,590	23.4	0.8×	$24k
Pennsylvania	257,370	42.4	1.5×	$29k
Illinois	134,100	22.0	0.8×	$38k
Minnesota	128,680	43.6	1.6×	$38k
Massachusetts	117,940	32.4	1.2×	$41k
New Jersey	117,080	27.3	1.0×	$37k
Ohio	106,940	19.3	0.7×	$34k
Washington	103,260	29.1	1.1×	$48k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Michigan	95,020	21.6	0.8×	$35k
Missouri	94,810	32.3	1.2×	$33k
Florida	90,170	9.1	0.3×	$34k
Wisconsin	82,430	28.0	1.0×	$36k
Arizona	74,540	23.0	0.8×	$36k
Virginia	70,070	17.1	0.6×	$30k
North Carolina	58,880	11.9	0.4×	$31k
Indiana	57,050	17.8	0.6×	$35k
Georgia	50,870	10.4	0.4×	$29k
Connecticut	49,510	29.2	1.1×	$39k
Maryland	46,560	16.9	0.6×	$38k
Louisiana	45,060	23.3	0.8×	$23k
Colorado	44,650	15.5	0.6×	$39k
Oregon	42,330	21.5	0.8×	$44k
South Carolina	40,750	17.7	0.6×	$30k
New Mexico	38,910	44.7	1.6×	$29k
Tennessee	35,950	11.0	0.4×	$32k
Kentucky	31,260	15.6	0.6×	$36k
Iowa	25,800	16.5	0.6×	$36k
Kansas	25,350	17.6	0.6×	$31k
Mississippi	21,800	18.7	0.7×	$24k
Alabama	20,930	9.9	0.4×	$28k
Idaho	20,770	24.2	0.9×	$35k
Oklahoma	20,310	11.9	0.4×	$28k
Arkansas	19,840	15.2	0.6×	$28k
West Virginia	18,890	26.9	1.0×	$28k
Maine	18,630	29.1	1.1×	$39k
Nevada	17,940	11.6	0.4×	$34k
Utah	17,130	9.9	0.4×	$36k
Nebraska	13,660	13.3	0.5×	$36k
Washington DC	12,810	18.2	0.7×	$43k
Delaware	11,820	24.4	0.9×	$34k
Montana	10,400	20.3	0.7×	$37k
New Hampshire	9,440	13.8	0.5×	$39k
North Dakota	7,730	18.0	0.7×	$39k
Vermont	7,700	25.3	0.9×	$42k
Rhode Island	7,490	14.9	0.5×	$44k
Alaska	6,530	20.1	0.7×	$40k
Hawaii	6,150	9.8	0.3×	$38k
South Dakota	4,210	9.2	0.3×	$38k
Wyoming	3,410	12.1	0.4×	$33k

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ644,700 jobs · $40k median
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA385,530 jobs · $34k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD158,280 jobs · $30k median
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA119,120 jobs · $36k median
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN108,520 jobs · $38k median
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA102,760 jobs · $34k median
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI93,560 jobs · $39k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH72,420 jobs · $41k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Home Health and Personal Care Aides (SOC 31-1120), the closest published occupation, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.