Chart: Home care aides make up the majority of domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2019 | Economic Policy Institute

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Home care aides make up the majority of domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2019

Occupation	Number of workers
House cleaners	343,527
Child care workers
Nannies	225,933
Providing care in own home	276,311
Home care aides
Not agency-based	141,400
Agency-based	1,257,878
Total domestic workers	2,245,047

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Note: To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this table draws from pooled 2017–2019 microdata.

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau

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