Pick a care type and, for in-home care, set weekly hours. You'll get a monthly and annual cost plus how it compares to the other four options, using 2025 CareScout national median data.
Data: CareScout Cost of Care Survey — 2025 national medians
Data: CareScout Cost of Care Survey — 2025 national medians — fieldwork July–November 2025.
Non-Medical Caregiver (In-Home)
Monthly cost
$6,673
Annual cost
$80,080
That's $55,380 more per year than the cheapest option below.
Data: CareScout Cost of Care Survey — 2025 national medians
National medians. Local provider prices can differ by up to 40% — use this as a planning starting point, not a quote.
Your selection is highlighted. In-home hours reflect the 44 hrs/week you set above.
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The calculator returns a number. These pages explain where it comes from, what gets billed on top of it, and when a different setting would be cheaper.
Four of the five care types went up between the last two surveys and one went down. Here is the change for each, in dollars rather than in adjectives — including the one that fell.
Every care type here is priced per month except this one, which is billed by the hour. That one difference is what makes in-home care cheap at 15 hours a week and the most expensive option at 50.
The cheapest care type in the survey, and the one families most often skip past without pricing. Here is what a day of attendance buys compared with the same hours of in-home care.
The most common step up from care at home. What the monthly fee covers, what gets billed on top of it, and the two line items to ask for in writing before signing.
Two published rates, and a $14,600-a-year gap between them. Room type and billing period (31-day months cost more than 28-day months) are the two things that move this number.
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These are the categories that come up again and again when people try to keep someone at home longer. Prices change constantly, so instead of quoting a number that will be wrong next month, here is what to check before you buy.
Falls are the most common reason a family moves from home care to a facility — and the most expensive to recover from.
A rollator with a seat and brakes lets someone stay mobile — and keep the hours of paid care lower.
Most falls happen in the bathroom. Grab bars and a shower chair are the cheapest intervention on this page.
If the person is alone for part of the day, this is the difference between a fall and a fall found hours later.
A recurring cost families rarely budget for — and one of the first things that pushes hours of care up.
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This site exists to answer the cost questions families actually have. If there is a number you could not find — a state, a care type, a benefit offset — tell us and we will build it.
44 hours/week is the figure CareScout's 2025 survey uses to annualize non-medical caregiver costs, so it is the most directly comparable default. You can move the slider from 5 to 60 hours to match your actual schedule.
Hourly rate × hours per week × 52 weeks, then divided by 12 months — the survey's own conversion, which states its monthly figures are based on the annual rate divided by 12. At $35/hour and 44 hours/week that is $80,080 a year, or $6,673 a month.
Because nursing homes bill all 365 days of the year. $315 × 365 = $114,975, and ÷ 12 gives $9,581. A flat 30-day month would come out at $9,450 and understate a year by $1,575.
Adult day centres operate on weekdays, so the annual figure is built on 260 days of attendance (5 days × 52 weeks), not 365: $95 × 260 = $24,700, or $2,058 a month. That matches the monthly median the survey itself publishes, which a 30-day month would overstate by about 38%.
Not yet. This version shows the national median for every state; the state selector is there for context, but the multiplier is 1.0 everywhere. The survey warns that local prices can differ substantially from the national median, so treat this as a starting point, not a quote.
No. The calculation runs in your browser with plain JavaScript — there is no API call and no server to send your inputs to.