CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care Survey reports a New York State median of $35 per hour for what it now calls non-medical caregiver services, a category that merged the formerly separate homemaker services and home health aide categories in 2025 due to price convergence. Based on a 44-hour week, that works out to roughly $6,673 per month or $80,080 per year. Private duty nursing, a higher-acuity service, runs a New York State median of $120 per hour.
The detail behind the number
If you researched in-home care costs using older articles, you may see homemaker services and home health aide listed as two separate hourly rates; that changed starting with CareScout's 2025 survey, which merged both into a single non-medical caregiver category nationwide because pricing between the two had converged. In New York, the 2024 survey had both categories at an identical $34 per hour, so the 2025 merger reflects a real, observed trend rather than a data-collection change. The $35-per-hour median assumes non-medical support such as bathing, dressing, meal prep, medication reminders, and companionship, not skilled nursing tasks; for medical-level home care, CareScout's separate Private Duty Nurse category reports a much higher $120-per-hour statewide median. Families should use the $35-per-hour figure to budget part-time or full-time non-medical home care and treat it as a state median rather than a Nassau or Suffolk-specific quote.
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