Community Health Workers

With a $51,850 median against a $50,020 national one, Community Health Workers is an average-paying occupation by construction — $152 a month either way. What separates it from the alternatives is not on this line.

61,660 people are employed as Community Health Workers. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.

This work suits people who can be useful to someone inside a system that is not resourced to fix their situation, and who can measure a good day in something other than resolution.

We carry no verified training length for Community Health Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

Between $45,640 and $62,540 there is $16,900, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.

At $45,640, or $21.94 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $4,380 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.

Avoid it if you take work home emotionally. The caseloads are above what the funding supports and that is structural, not local.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 61,660 people employed as Community Health Workers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

The quarters are $45,640 and $62,540, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Community Health Workers is the cost of living where you do it.

In cash terms the middle half of Community Health Workers runs $45,640 to $62,540 — $16,900 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $51,850.

The 75th percentile is $62,540. Reaching it from the $51,850 midpoint is $10,690 a year; reaching it from the $45,640 that the bottom quarter of Community Health Workers earn is $16,900.

It is $6,210 from $51,850 down to $45,640 but $10,690 up to $62,540. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Community Health Workers is $24.92 an hour. The quarters sit at $21.94 and $30.06, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.