How to hire a home care attendant

Home care attendant hiring summary. Here are some key points about hiring home care attendants in the United States:

In the United States, the median cost per hire a home care attendant is $1,633.
It takes between 36 and 42 days to fill the average role in the US.
Human Resources use 15% of their expenses on recruitment on average.
On average, it takes around 12 weeks for a new home care attendant to become settled and show total productivity levels at work.

How to hire a home care attendant, step by step

To hire a home care attendant, consider the skills and experience you are looking for in a candidate, allocate a budget for the position, and post and promote the job opening to reach potential candidates. Follow these steps to hire a home care attendant:

Here's a step-by-step home care attendant hiring guide:

Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
Step 3: Make a budget
Step 4: Write a home care attendant job description
Step 5: Post your job
Step 6: Interview candidates
Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new home care attendant
Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

What does a home care attendant do?

A home care attendant is a health care worker whose primary job is to provide care and assistance to the elderly and people with disabilities. Your day-to-day duties will include monitoring and recording the condition of patients, performing housekeeping and laundry, and providing personal care services such as dressing and bathing. In addition, you will assist patients in caring for themselves by teaching them how to use a walker, cane, and personal hygiene equipment. As a home care attendant, you are also expected to adhere to asepsis procedures and standards to maintain a secure, healthy, and safe environment.

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Identify your hiring needs

The home care attendant hiring process starts by determining what type of worker you actually need. Certain roles might require a full-time employee, whereas part-time workers or contractors can do others.

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Hiring the perfect home care attendant also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

This list presents home care attendant salaries for various positions.

Type of Home Care Attendant	Description	Hourly rate
Home Care Attendant	Personal care aides help clients with self-care and everyday tasks. They also provide social supports and assistance that enable clients to participate in their communities.	$8-18
Provider	Health care providers are health professionals and health organizations offering health care treatment and diagnosis services. These professionals play significant roles with patients through consultation, treatment, and advice... Show more	$17-50
Sitter	A sitter is responsible for assisting medical needs under the supervision of an attending physician, registered nurses, and other health professionals. Sitters monitor the patients' daily activities and perform medical duties such as taking the patient's temperature, administering medications, monitoring food intake, helping with bathing needs, and responding to the patients' inquiries, concerns, and requests... Show more	$9-18

Create an ideal candidate profile
Common skills:
- Patients
- Home Health
- Companionship
- CPR
- Meal Prep
- Patient Care
- Cleanliness
- RUN Errands
- Medication Reminders
- In-Home Care
- Laundry Services
- Vital Signs
- Care Plan
- Medical Appointments
Check all skills
Responsibilities:
- Manage clients bills, paid them, buy groceries, take complete care of their responsibilities.
- Self-Direct and empower, providing hygiene care, hospice and respite care to Alzheimer's patients and patients requiring long-term assistance.
- Provide companionship and conversation, stabilization, and assistance with walking, and providing medication and appointment reminders for assign patients.
- Maintain all confidential personnel files and CPR compliance records.
- Ensure that HHA's are trained to administer the required care.
- Interview applicants for HHA training program, and general clerical duties and some front reception coverage.
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Make a budget

Including a salary range in your home care attendant job description helps attract top candidates to the position. A home care attendant salary can be affected by several factors, such as geography, experience, seniority, certifications, and the prestige of the hiring company.

For example, the average salary for a home care attendant in South Carolina may be lower than in Alaska, and an entry-level home care attendant usually earns less than a senior-level home care attendant. Additionally, a home care attendant with certifications may command a higher salary, and working for a well-known company or start-up may also impact an employee's pay.

Average home care attendant salary

$12.53hourly

$26,059 yearly

Entry-level home care attendant salary

$17,000 yearly salary

Updated December 16, 2025

Average home care attendant salary by state

Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
1	Massachusetts	$30,738	$15
2	California	$29,474	$14
3	New Mexico	$27,932	$13
4	New York	$27,891	$13
5	Pennsylvania	$26,681	$13
6	Iowa	$25,435	$12
7	Arizona	$25,127	$12
8	Indiana	$24,890	$12
9	Idaho	$24,362	$12
10	New Jersey	$22,974	$11
11	Kansas	$21,267	$10
12	South Carolina	$20,865	$10
13	Texas	$20,578	$10
14	Florida	$20,199	$10

Average home care attendant salary by company

Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
1	Dignity Health	$35,358	$17.00	98
2	St Luke's Hospital & Health Network Inc	$33,859	$16.28
3	Mohawk Valley Health System	$33,698	$16.20	1
4	Franklin County Home Health Agency	$32,991	$15.86
5	Hackensack Meridian Health	$32,676	$15.71	157
6	Lahey Health Behavioral Services	$32,055	$15.41
7	CARE	$31,576	$15.18	20
8	PROFESSIONAL NURSING SERVICES	$31,563	$15.17
9	Acadian Ambulance	$31,431	$15.11	12
10	VetCor	$31,237	$15.02	20
11	Mille Lacs Health System	$31,004	$14.91	9
12	Loretto	$30,605	$14.71	11
13	Penn Medicine Princeton Health	$30,224	$14.53	23
14	Hutchinson Regional Medical Center	$30,174	$14.51	3
15	Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare	$29,848	$14.35	35
16	Kindred Healthcare	$29,748	$14.30	11
17	Elim Care	$29,728	$14.29
18	UnityPoint Health	$29,505	$14.19	96
19	Augustana Care	$28,550	$13.73	22
20	Brooks Rehabilitation	$28,513	$13.71	12

Writing a home care attendant job description
A job description for a home care attendant role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a home care attendant job description:
Home care attendant job description example
CareAge HomeCare invites you to join our team! We are a non-medical, in-home care agency delivering high quality care for seniors and meaningful careers for caregivers who want to make a difference!

We have immediate openings to work in homes of seniors throughout the Temple, Belton, Killeen, and Harker Heights and surrounding areas!
Our benefits include:

Competitive Wages

Flexible Shifts

Direct Deposit

Bi-Weekly Pay

Referral Bonuses

On the Job training and promotion opportunities

Caregiver Appreciation & Caregiver of the Month!

Locally owned business that treats staff like family

JOB REQUIREMENTS

No certification required!

Pass a background check

Valid Drivers License and Insurance

Ability to provide 3 References

Ability to verify 3 years of work history

Desire to learn and grow!

Passion for serving seniors and those in need!
Post your job
To find the right home care attendant for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:
- Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
- Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with home care attendants they would recommend.
- Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit home care attendants who meet your education requirements.
- Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.
Post your job online:
- Post your home care attendant job on Zippia to find and recruit home care attendant candidates who meet your exact specifications.
- Use field-specific websites.
- Post a job on free websites.
Interview candidates
To successfully recruit home care attendants, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.
Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.
The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.
Send a job offer and onboard your new home care attendant
Once you've found the home care attendant candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.
It's equally important to follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that the position has been filled.
To prepare for the new home care attendant first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.
Go through the hiring process checklist
- Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
- Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
- Define job responsibilities and requirements
- Establish budget and timeline
- Determine hiring decision makers for the role
- Write job description
- Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
- Promote the job internally
- Process applications through applicant tracking system
- Review resumes and cover letters
- Shortlist candidates for screening
- Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
- Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
- Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
- Conduct background checks on top candidates
- Check references of top candidates
- Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
- Extend offer to top candidate(s)
- Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
- Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
- Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
- Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)
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How much does it cost to hire a home care attendant?

Recruiting home care attendants involves both the one-time costs of hiring and the ongoing costs of adding a new employee to your team. Your spending during the hiring process will mostly be on things like promoting the job on job boards, reviewing and interviewing candidates, and onboarding the new hire. Ongoing costs will obviously involve the employee's salary, but also may include things like benefits.

You can expect to pay around $26,059 per year for a home care attendant, as this is the median yearly salary nationally. This can vary depending on what state or city you're hiring in. If you're hiring for contract work or on a per-project basis, hourly rates for home care attendants in the US typically range between $8 and $18 an hour.

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