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Home health aide
You help clients with daily needs like bathing, meals, and medication in their own homes. Agencies place many aides, though some work privately for families.
4.5Last review 3 weeks agoLow data
Low data. These numbers come from just 1 review, so treat them as an early signal, not a reliable average — they'll sharpen as more people report.
Median monthly earnings
$750
Middle 50%: $750 – $750
Effective hourly
$25.00
Earnings over the hours people logged
Hours per week
7 hrs
Median across reviews
Startup cost
$100–500
To get up and running
Time to first $100
Within a week
From starting out
Monthly expenses
Under $50
To keep it running
Schedule flexibility
Fully on my own terms
Most common answer
Would recommend it
100%
1 of 1 say yes or probably yes
What people make in a month
Gross earnings people entered themselves, before expenses and taxes. 1 review.
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Under $100
$100–250
$250–500
$500–1,000
$1,000–2,000
$2,000–3,500
$3,500–5,000
$5,000–10,000
$10,000+
How it scores
Happiness9.0 / 10
Would do it again100%
Schedule flexibility5.0 / 5
Pay predictability3.7 / 5
What surprised people most
Every option reviewers could pick, most common first. 1 review.
Taxes — how much I owe
1
How much I could earn
0
How little I could earn
0
How much time it takes
0
How difficult it is to get started
0
How difficult it is to find customers or clients
0
Unexpected expenses
0
How competitive the market is
0
Nothing really surprised me
0
Reviews
Everyone here is anonymous. Nobody sees who wrote what.· 5+ years in · 3 weeks ago
Monthly $500–1,000Hours 20–40 hrs/moHourly $25.00
Very fulfilling
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