Table 5
Employment in domestic worker occupations, by selected metropolitan area, 2019
| Domestic worker occupations | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child care workers | Home care aides | ||||||
| Metropolitan area | All other (nondomestic) workers | Domestic workers | House cleaners | Nannies | Provider in own home | Non- agency-based | Agency-based |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Mass.* | 969,980 | 15,021 | 2,412 | 1,804 | 1,476 | 755 | 8,687 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, Ill.* | 4,330,297 | 56,210 | 5,719 | 9,038 | 8,776 | 3,546 | 28,081 |
| Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, Texas | 3,057,343 | 46,201 | 11,334 | 5,840 | 4,121 | 1,645 | 22,962 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. | 2,580,766 | 55,888 | 15,868 | 3,605 | 4,054 | 5,970 | 26,447 |
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, Fla. | 2,931,316 | 54,494 | 27,891 | 3,057 | 2,673 | 2,872 | 16,370 |
| New York, N.Y.* | 6,070,857 | 218,103 | 28,083 | 15,451 | 17,500 | 5,641 | 159,340 |
| Philadelphia, Pa.* | 1,958,882 | 30,551 | 2,740 | 3,143 | 1,805 | 1,930 | 22,301 |
| Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz. | 2,149,878 | 26,953 | 5,011 | 2,730 | 2,652 | 3,435 | 13,107 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif. | 2,417,860 | 43,435 | 7,541 | 7,437 | 5,521 | 2,372 | 19,632 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash. | 1,973,355 | 24,502 | 3,110 | 5,940 | 3,403 | 1,904 | 9,286 |
Notes: To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this table draws from pooled 2010–2019 microdata. *Indicates a metropolitan area that has been restricted to one state.
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
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