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Community Health Workers
Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.
What a community health worker does
Become a community health worker
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good community health worker
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Talking to others.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $35 per hour with a typical salary of $66,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $23 and $41 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $16,100 and $70,100 per year.
- 54% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $24 per hour with a typical salary of $26,400 per year.
Community Health Worker job outlook
- There are 2,107 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 607 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 21% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.