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Home Care Rates by State: Private Pay and Medicaid
Non-medical home care cost a median $35 an hour in 2025. What drives state differences, what Medicaid pays for personal care in four states, and how to price your agency.
How much does home care cost per hour in each state?
The national median for non-medical in-home care was $35 an hour in 2025. Pick a state to start the calculator from its caregiver wage and median price, or open its page for Medicaid rates and the minimum wage.
Last reviewed October 17, 2026
Home care rates in every state
Median price of non-medical in-home care (CareScout 2025), median caregiver wage (BLS, May 2025) and the state minimum wage. Each state's page has the calculator set to its numbers.
| State | Median price | Caregiver wage | Minimum wage | Medicaid rates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $27 | $13.39 | $7.25 | — |
| Alaska | $38 | $19.11 | $14.00 | Linked |
| Arizona | $38 | $17.51 | $15.15 | Linked |
| Arkansas | $25 | $13.30 | $11.00 | Linked |
| California | $40 | $16.50 | $16.90 | Linked |
| Colorado | $42 | $18.53 | $15.16 | Linked |
| Connecticut | $36 | $18.75 | $16.94 | Linked |
| Delaware | $35 | $16.50 | $15.00 | — |
| District of Columbia | — | $20.53 | $18.40 | Linked |
| Florida | $32 | $16.25 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Georgia | $32 | $14.07 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Hawaii | $41 | $18.32 | $16.00 | Linked |
| Idaho | $39 | $16.72 | $7.25 | — |
| Illinois | $36 | $18.30 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Indiana | $35 | $16.86 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Iowa | $41 | $17.34 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Kansas | $34 | $15.03 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Kentucky | $33 | $17.52 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Louisiana | $26 | $10.83 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Maine | $45 | $18.55 | $15.10 | — |
| Maryland | $35 | $18.29 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Massachusetts | $40 | $19.67 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Michigan | $35 | $16.83 | $13.73 | Linked |
| Minnesota | $44 | $18.45 | $11.41 | Linked |
| Mississippi | $24 | $11.47 | $7.25 | — |
| Missouri | $33 | $15.90 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Montana | $38 | $17.61 | $10.85 | Linked |
| Nebraska | $36 | $17.38 | $15.00 | Linked |
| Nevada | $37 | $16.19 | $12.00 | Linked |
| New Hampshire | $40 | $18.64 | $7.25 | — |
| New Jersey | $38 | $17.83 | $15.92 | Linked |
| New Mexico | $30 | $13.71 | $12.00 | Linked |
| New York | $35 | $19.05 | $17.00 | Linked |
| North Carolina | $30 | $15.02 | $7.25 | Linked |
| North Dakota | $34 | $18.96 | $7.25 | — |
| Ohio | $34 | $16.57 | $11.00 | Linked |
| Oklahoma | $33 | $13.32 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Oregon | $40 | $21.35 | $15.55 | Linked |
| Pennsylvania | $34 | $14.14 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Rhode Island | $40 | $21.00 | $16.00 | Linked |
| South Carolina | $31 | $14.48 | $7.25 | Linked |
| South Dakota | $44 | $18.15 | $11.85 | Linked |
| Tennessee | $31 | $15.45 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Texas | $30 | $11.65 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Utah | $39 | $17.25 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Vermont | $45 | $20.00 | $14.42 | Linked |
| Virginia | $35 | $14.57 | $12.77 | Linked |
| Washington | $45 | $22.95 | $17.13 | Linked |
| West Virginia | $30 | $13.47 | $8.75 | Linked |
| Wisconsin | $36 | $17.47 | $7.25 | Linked |
| Wyoming | $46 | $15.96 | $7.25 | — |
How does the calculator work?
Labor cost per billed hour is the pay rate, plus half the overtime share for time-and-a-half, plus payroll burden, divided by the share of paid hours you can bill. The bill rate is labor divided by one minus overhead and margin when overhead is a share of revenue, or labor plus overhead divided by one minus margin when it is dollars per hour. Break-even is the same with no margin.
The pay rate starts at the median aide wage and the bill rate to test at the median price, for the US or the state you pick. Payroll burden starts at 20%: Social Security, Medicare and unemployment taxes plus workers' comp usually add 18–22% to wages, but yours depends on your state, your workers' comp class and your claims. The other defaults are examples, not benchmarks.
If you budget overhead as an annual figure, the bill rate calculator spreads it over your billable hours instead.
How Caregiver Scheduling handles this
Private-pay invoicing from verified visit data is coming soon, at the rates in each service agreement, so a rate change will show up correctly on the next invoice. See what’s coming for invoicing.
Sources
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025 (fielded July through November 2025): National and State Median Cost Data Tables
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025: 31-1120 Home Health and Personal Care Aides (national, state and metropolitan area data files)
- U.S. Department of Labor, state minimum wage laws
Frequently asked questions
The CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey puts the national median for non-medical in-home care at $35 an hour. Wyoming has the highest state median ($46) and Mississippi the lowest ($24).
They are the median prices in each state. Your own rate should come from your costs: wage, payroll burden, overhead and margin. Use the bill rate calculator, then compare.
Each state sets its own rates, usually per 15-minute unit and sometimes per hour, and some states set them by county or program. Each state page links to the official rate source where one is published.
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