How Much Per Year Does a Home Caregiver Make in Illinois?

Illinois Home Health Aides Salaries

Nearly 27,580 home health aides serve residents in Illinois. Median hourly wages the aides earned, as of May 2009, were $9.69, according to the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mean or average hourly wages that the aides earned, regardless of where they worked in the state, were $10.86. Annual salaries that home health aides earned in Illinois averaged out to approximately $22,590.

Across the nation, investment pools and funds paid home health aides the highest wages. Aides who worked for investment pools and funds earned $16.83 an hour and $35,010 a year, as of May 2008, according to the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mental health and substance abuse clinics paid aides $16.06 an hour and $33,400 a year, while management, scientific and technical consulting organizations that hired home health aides paid them $13.14 an hour and $27,340 a year, rounding out the top three highest paying industries for the career field.

There were nearly 921,700 home health aides working in the United States, as of May 2008. Home health aides provide care to critically ill patients. They usually work for hospice agencies. Nationally, these home caregivers earned an hourly median wage of $9.84, as of May 2008. Hourly wages that the middle 50 percent of home caregivers earned ranged from $8.52 to $11.69 per hour. Caregivers who worked for lower-paying employers, or who worked shorter workweeks than their higher-paid counterparts, earned less than $7.65 an hour. However, the top 10 percent of home caregivers earned hourly wages that exceeded $13.63.

Personal and home care aides generally work for private and publicly owned health care agencies. Their work is supervised by a nurse or other senior health care practitioner. As of 2008, personal and home health care aids earned median hourly wages of $9.22. The middle 50 percent of personal and home care aides earned between $7.81 and $10.98 an hour. The bottom and top 10 percent of these health care workers earned less than $6.84 an hour and more than $12.33 an hour, respectively.