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Average Home Health And Personal Care Aides Salary in Missouri

Home Health And Personal Care Aides in Missouri earn a median annual salary of $29,640, which is -15.1% compared to the national median. There are 91,570 workers employed locally in this occupation.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2024 estimates for Missouri (state).

$29,640
Missouri median annual wage
$14/hour median
-15.1%
Difference vs national median
National median is $34,900
91,570
Local employment
31.4 jobs per 1,000 workers
1.21
Location quotient
Above 1.00 means the occupation is more concentrated here than nationally

Pay distribution

Local wage range

10th
$27,200
25th
$27,200
Median
$29,640
75th
$36,900
90th
$43,260

All values are percentiles of annual wages.

This local range is the useful part of the page. The median tells you the center of the market in Missouri, while the percentile band shows how compressed or wide the local pay distribution actually is.

Regional price parity

Cost-of-living context

All-items regional price parity
90.8%
Exact state RPP match
Median wage adjusted to the national price level
$32,637
Goods: 96.3%
Services: 79.4%
Rents: 69.9%

Comparison links

Comparable states for this occupation

StateMedian annual wageCompareEmployment
Washington$46,140Compare100,360
Rhode Island$41,890Compare8,800
Oregon$41,490Compare38,890
Massachusetts$39,520Compare108,090
District of Columbia$39,420Compare11,490
North Dakota$39,100Compare7,090

The point of this table is not random nearby places. It is to show the other labor markets where this same occupation looks stronger or weaker on the same OEWS release.

Area context

Top occupations in Missouri

OccupationMedian annual wageLQ
Nurse Anesthetists$221,5501.27
Dentists, All Other Specialists$217,4000.27
Family Medicine Physicians$216,9901.21
Pediatricians, General$215,0400.21
Physicians, Pathologists$213,4302.95
Physicists$180,4500.22
Chief Executives$158,9301.01
Judges, Magistrate Judges, And Magistrates$156,2101.13

Missouri has salary data for 751 occupations. The highest-paid occupation in this area is Nurse Anesthetists.

Historical series

Trend for Home Health And Personal Care Aides in Missouri

Historical trend data is not yet available for this occupation in this area.

Interpretation

Outlook and page notes

Nationally, Home Health And Personal Care Aides are projected to change by +17.0% from 2024 to 2034, with 765,800 annual openings.

Use this page to answer three separate questions: what the occupation pays here, how large the local market is, and whether this market is unusually concentrated for the occupation.

For metro pages in particular, read long-term trend rows as directional until the area comparability layer is fully wired. OEWS area definitions can change over time, and that matters more at the metro level than at the state level.