Chart: Home care aides make up the majority of the nation’s 2.2 million domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2021

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Home care aides make up the majority of the nation's 2.2 million domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2021

	House cleaners	Nannies	Providers of child care in own home	Non-agency-based home care aides	Agency-based home care aides
House cleaners	304556.69
Child care workers		211674.52	239941.64
Home care aides				148,897	1,253,899

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Note: There were 2,158,969 workers in domestic occupations in 2021. To ensure sufficient sample sizes for the subcategories, this figure draws from pooled 2019–2021 microdata. Totals may not add up due to rounding.

Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.32 (2022), https://microdata.epi.org.

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