Chart: Home care aides make up the majority of the nation’s 2.2 million domestic workers: Employment in domestic worker occupations, 2019

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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, 2019

Occupation	Number of workers
House cleaners	343,527
Child care–nannies	225,933
Child care–providers in own home	276,311
Home care aides–not agency-based	141,400
Home care aides–agency-based	1,257,878

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Note: There were 2,245,047 workers in domestic occupations in 2019. To ensure sufficient sample sizes for the subcategories, 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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