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Home Health Aide: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.

The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.

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Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Data: BLS OEWS May 2025 · O*NET 31.0
Quick answer

Home Health Aides monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication.

Preparation
Job Zone 1-2 of 5
very little to some preparation
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The work

What home health aides do day to day

Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).

  1. Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
  2. Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
  3. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
  4. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
  5. Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
  6. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
  7. Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
  8. Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
Skills that matter

Ranked by importance to the job

Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.

Service OrientationcoreActive ListeningcoreSocial PerceptivenesscoreTime ManagementReading ComprehensionMonitoringInstructingComplex Problem SolvingJudgment and Decision Making

Knowledge areas: Psychology, Customer and Personal Service, Medicine and Dentistry, English Language, Public Safety and Security, Therapy and Counseling.

Tools and technology

Software home health aides use

Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.

  • AIGHD OASISMedical software
  • Mi-Co softwareData base reporting software
  • LinuxOperating system softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft AccessData base user interface and query softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft ExcelSpreadsheet softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft Office softwareOffice suite softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft OutlookElectronic mail softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft PowerPointPresentation softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft SharePointDocument management softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft WindowsOperating system softwareHot technology
  • Microsoft WordWord processing softwareHot technology
  • Oracle DatabaseData base user interface and query softwareHot technology

Also called: Caregiver, CHHA (Certified Home Health Aide), CMA (Certified Medical Aide), CNA (Certified Nurses Aide), Direct Care Professional, Home Care Aide.

Method

How this page is built

Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the cosine similarity of the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level and subtract the average across all occupations, then compare the direction of the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 means unrelated or opposite (negative values are shown as 0). Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.

What this page can't tell you
  • How a specific employer defines the job.
  • Pay for self-employed workers (OEWS covers employees).
  • Your own chances: data describes the occupation, not you.
Sources
  1. O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).

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