Home care aides make up the majority of the nation's 2.2 million domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2019
| House cleaners | Nannies | Providers of child care in own home | Non-agency-based home care aides | Agency-based home care aides | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House cleaners | 343,527 | ||||
| Child care workers | 225,933 | 276,311 | |||
| Home care aides | 141,400 | 1,257,878 |
Note: There were 2,245,047 workers in domestic occupations in 2019. To ensure sufficient sample sizes for the subcategories, this figure 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