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Community Health Workers

SOC 21-1094

Connect underserved communities to health resources and prevention programs.

The job
Median pay
$52k
$46k to $63k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+13% projected
Openings a year
7k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school plus cert
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
14/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
27th pct
More exposed than 27% of occupations · modeled estimate · 87th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
67/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California9,5000.51.3×$58k
New York5,8000.61.5×$58k
Texas4,2100.30.8×$49k
Maryland3,0301.12.8×$51k
Massachusetts2,9700.82.1×$56k
Washington2,6400.71.9×$57k
Illinois2,0400.30.8×$49k
Oregon1,9801.02.5×$53k
Pennsylvania1,9700.30.8×$51k
Ohio1,9100.30.9×$51k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Michigan1,8900.41.1×$49k
Missouri1,8200.61.6×$49k
North Carolina1,6800.30.9×$48k
New Jersey1,3300.30.8×$56k
Colorado1,3120.51.1×$59k~
Indiana1,3100.41.0×$48k
Minnesota1,2600.41.1×$48k
Florida1,2200.10.3×$45k
Arizona1,1400.40.9×$49k
Kentucky9800.51.2×$48k
Nevada6700.41.1×$58k
Wisconsin6300.20.5×$51k
Virginia6200.20.4×$49k
New Mexico6100.71.8×$55k
Oklahoma6000.40.9×$46k
Utah5800.30.8×$56k
South Carolina5400.20.6×$48k
Rhode Island5201.02.6×$53k
Tennessee5200.20.4×$42k
Georgia4900.10.3×$51k
Mississippi4100.40.9×$40k
Alaska4001.23.1×$52k
Iowa3900.30.6×$48k
Arkansas3690.30.7×$45k~
Maine3600.61.4×$49k
Montana3300.61.6×$50k
West Virginia3100.41.1×$38k
Connecticut2900.20.4×$54k
Delaware2800.61.5×$56k
Washington DC2800.41.0×$63k
Alabama2700.10.3×$43k
Idaho2700.30.8×$52k
South Dakota2700.61.5×$46k
Hawaii2400.41.0×$58k
Kansas2400.20.4×$47k
Louisiana2100.10.3×$46k
New Hampshire2000.30.7×$67k
Vermont1700.61.4×$52k
Nebraska1600.20.4×$52k
Wyoming1400.51.3×$54k
North Dakota900.20.5×$60k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ4,790 jobs · $59k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,200 jobs · $56k median
  3. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA2,090 jobs · $73k median
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,940 jobs · $57k median
  5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,600 jobs · $59k median
  6. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,430 jobs · $50k median
  7. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD1,300 jobs · $50k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,230 jobs · $51k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.