SALARY · HOME HEALTH AND PERSONAL CARE AIDES · MASSACHUSETTS

Home Health and Personal Care Aides salary in Massachusetts

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for home health and personal care aides in Massachusetts: $40,910 a year. The mean is listed too, so you can see when a small group of high earners pulls the average upward.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$40,910

$20 per hour at the median · That is $5,110 (14.3 percent) above the national median of $35,800 for this occupation.

$42,080Mean annual salary
$20Mean hourly wage
$117,940People employed in this job in Massachusetts

Salary range

25th: $39,650Median: $40,91075th: $43,740
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$39,650
Median (50th percentile)$40,910
75th percentile$43,740
Mean$42,080

The middle half of workers earned from $39,650 to $43,740 a year. Do not read the percentile range as good versus bad jobs. It mostly reflects experience, hours, employer type and local demand. A new starter near the 25th percentile and a veteran near the 75th can both be fairly paid for their stage.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$33,226 a year
$2,769 a month
Federal tax $2,729 · FICA $3,130 · State tax $1,826

Caveat: the Massachusetts figure excludes the optional Social Security and Medicare deduction, worth up to $100 of tax.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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