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 |
| Provider in own home | 276,311 |
| Home care aides | |
| Non-agency-based | 141,400 |
| Agency-based | 1,257,878 |
| Total domestic workers | 2,245,047 |
Note: To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this table draws from pooled 2017–2019 microdata.
Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.2 (2020), https://microdata.epi.org