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Personal Care Aides
Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.
What a personal care aide does
Become a personal care aide
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good personal care aide
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Understanding people's reactions.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Half of workers earn between $22 and $24 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $7,500 and $39,000 per year.
- 56% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $23 per hour with an average salary of $22,200 per year.
Personal Care Aide job outlook
Multiple Jobs
- 6% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 36% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.