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Healthcare Support

Home Health & Personal Aides

SOC 31-1120

Help elderly and disabled people live at home with daily care and support.

The job
Median pay
$36k
$32k to $39k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+18% projected
Openings a year
761k
BLS projection
Typical education
No formal credential
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
25/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
33rd pct
More exposed than 33% of occupations · modeled estimate · 12th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
68/100

At a glance

Roughly 760,500 positions open up annually for Home Health & Personal Aides, counting growth and replacement, one of the bigger hiring pools. Modeled AI exposure for Home Health & Personal Aides ranks at the 33rd percentile; displacement risk is low and works-with-AI 25/100, closer to help than to displacement. The 2025 to 2035 outlook is +18%, 14 points above typical growth across the occupations we cover. The usual way in requires no formal credential. A median wage of $35,800 sits 47% below the typical occupation we cover, and 21% below the median across Healthcare Support. Compared with Medical Transcriptionists at -4.4%, projected growth here is +18%.

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Pay and jobs by state

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.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California970,15053.31.9×$34k
New York663,14068.42.5×$40k
Texas329,59023.40.8×$24k
Pennsylvania257,37042.41.5×$29k
Illinois134,10022.00.8×$38k
Minnesota128,68043.61.6×$38k
Massachusetts117,94032.41.2×$41k
New Jersey117,08027.31.0×$37k
Ohio106,94019.30.7×$34k
Washington103,26029.11.1×$48k
All 50 states and DC
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Michigan95,02021.60.8×$35k
Missouri94,81032.31.2×$33k
Florida90,1709.10.3×$34k
Wisconsin82,43028.01.0×$36k
Arizona74,54023.00.8×$36k
Virginia70,07017.10.6×$30k
North Carolina58,88011.90.4×$31k
Indiana57,05017.80.6×$35k
Georgia50,87010.40.4×$29k
Connecticut49,51029.21.1×$39k
Maryland46,56016.90.6×$38k
Louisiana45,06023.30.8×$23k
Colorado44,65015.50.6×$39k
Oregon42,33021.50.8×$44k
South Carolina40,75017.70.6×$30k
New Mexico38,91044.71.6×$29k
Tennessee35,95011.00.4×$32k
Kentucky31,26015.60.6×$36k
Iowa25,80016.50.6×$36k
Kansas25,35017.60.6×$31k
Mississippi21,80018.70.7×$24k
Alabama20,9309.90.4×$28k
Idaho20,77024.20.9×$35k
Oklahoma20,31011.90.4×$28k
Arkansas19,84015.20.6×$28k
West Virginia18,89026.91.0×$28k
Maine18,63029.11.1×$39k
Nevada17,94011.60.4×$34k
Utah17,1309.90.4×$36k
Nebraska13,66013.30.5×$36k
Washington DC12,81018.20.7×$43k
Delaware11,82024.40.9×$34k
Montana10,40020.30.7×$37k
New Hampshire9,44013.80.5×$39k
North Dakota7,73018.00.7×$39k
Vermont7,70025.30.9×$42k
Rhode Island7,49014.90.5×$44k
Alaska6,53020.10.7×$40k
Hawaii6,1509.80.3×$38k
South Dakota4,2109.20.3×$38k
Wyoming3,41012.10.4×$33k

Top metro areas

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