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Community Health Workers · SOC 21-1094

Community Health Workers Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$58,790
Median hourly wage$28.27

Community Health Workers in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $58,790 per year ($28.27 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $38,980 at the 10th percentile to $87,750 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,600 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Community Health Workers in the Washington metro area earn more than $58,790 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $48,880 and $70,680.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$38,980$48,880$58,790$70,680$87,750
Hourly$18.74$23.50$28.27$33.98$42.19

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $58,790
  • District of Columbiastate (DC)
    $62,510
  • United Statesnational
    $51,850

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −6% vs District of Columbia overall and +13% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$30,200$47,333$64,467$81,600Mayaguez, PR — $30,200McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $31,340Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $33,080Corpus Christi, TX — $37,650Montgomery, AL — $37,860San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $38,020Charleston, WV — $38,080Wichita Falls, TX — $38,100Champaign-Urbana, IL — $39,040College Station-Bryan, TX — $39,040Amarillo, TX — $39,340Knoxville, TN — $39,510Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $40,340Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $41,700Jackson, MS — $41,990Tallahassee, FL — $42,250Yuma, AZ — $42,400Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $42,450Wilmington, NC — $42,510Wichita, KS — $43,550Terre Haute, IN — $43,710Laredo, TX — $43,940Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $44,070Duluth, MN-WI — $44,360New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $44,380Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $44,440St. Cloud, MN — $44,610Bowling Green, KY — $44,620Rochester, MN — $44,630Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $44,650Grand Forks, ND-MN — $44,800Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $44,930Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $44,940Toledo, OH — $44,940Greeley, CO — $44,990Salisbury, MD — $45,110El Paso, TX — $45,240Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $45,370Tyler, TX — $45,490Jacksonville, FL — $45,630Rapid City, SD — $45,700Columbia, SC — $45,820Boise City, ID — $45,950Florence, SC — $46,000Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $46,010Baton Rouge, LA — $46,050Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $46,270Redding, CA — $46,300Pittsfield, MA — $46,530Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $46,600Greenville, NC — $46,610Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $46,650Joplin, MO-KS — $46,700Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $46,720Lubbock, TX — $46,740Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $46,760Youngstown-Warren, OH — $46,780Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $46,790Rockford, IL — $46,810Utica-Rome, NY — $46,840Chico, CA — $47,240Greensboro-High Point, NC — $47,390Jefferson City, MO — $47,400Grants Pass, OR — $47,470Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $47,540Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $47,590Portland-South Portland, ME — $47,600South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $47,800Canton-Massillon, OH — $47,810Mobile, AL — $47,880Yakima, WA — $47,940Oklahoma City, OK — $47,950Eugene-Springfield, OR — $48,050Missoula, MT — $48,090Tucson, AZ — $48,210Cleveland, OH — $48,260Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $48,260Ogden, UT — $48,290Waco, TX — $48,290Flint, MI — $48,340Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $48,340Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $48,360Evansville, IN — $48,430Springfield, MA — $48,540Bangor, ME — $48,680Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $48,890Winston-Salem, NC — $48,910Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $48,920Asheville, NC — $48,950Fort Wayne, IN — $48,970Binghamton, NY — $49,010Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $49,100Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $49,200Columbia, MO — $49,270Killeen-Temple, TX — $49,300Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $49,330Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $49,410York-Hanover, PA — $49,410Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $49,420Springfield, MO — $49,540Lexington-Fayette, KY — $49,550Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $49,570Longview-Kelso, WA — $49,600Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $49,610Decatur, IL — $49,630Kansas City, MO-KS — $49,650Las Cruces, NM — $49,650St. Louis, MO-IL — $49,650Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $49,660Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $49,720Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,750Kennewick-Richland, WA — $49,830Springfield, OH — $49,870Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $49,920Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $49,920Reno, NV — $49,930Pittsburgh, PA — $49,940Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $50,230Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $50,330Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $50,350Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $50,550Peoria, IL — $50,710Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $50,760Stockton-Lodi, CA — $50,830Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $50,950Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $50,980Raleigh-Cary, NC — $50,980Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $50,990Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $51,010Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $51,010Corvallis, OR — $51,420Richmond, VA — $51,420San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $51,470Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $51,500Akron, OH — $51,530Lewiston-Auburn, ME — $51,550Flagstaff, AZ — $51,750Omaha, NE-IA — $51,760Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $52,000Rochester, NY — $52,110Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $52,130Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $52,260San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $52,350Fresno, CA — $52,520Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $52,770Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $52,900Colorado Springs, CO — $53,360Tulsa, OK — $53,600Anchorage, AK — $53,610Worcester, MA — $53,620Fargo, ND-MN — $53,660Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $53,850Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $53,970Salem, OR — $54,090Syracuse, NY — $54,320Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $54,530Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $54,590Fairbanks-College, AK — $54,750Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $55,290Billings, MT — $55,360Lexington Park, MD — $55,530Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $55,530Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $55,550Manchester-Nashua, NH — $55,790Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $56,030Madison, WI — $56,040Barnstable Town, MA — $56,170Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $56,180Urban Honolulu, HI — $56,460Salinas, CA — $56,810Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $56,920Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $57,060Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $57,240Bend, OR — $57,690Bellingham, WA — $57,930Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $57,980Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $58,180Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $58,250Albuquerque, NM — $58,290Medford, OR — $58,600Fort Smith, AR-OK — $58,690Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $58,760Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $58,790Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $59,200Ann Arbor, MI — $59,210New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $59,340Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $59,470Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $60,090Yuba City, CA — $60,610New Haven, CT — $60,690Modesto, CA — $60,800Vallejo, CA — $61,130Lincoln, NE — $61,310Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $61,610Traverse City, MI — $62,160Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $62,400Visalia, CA — $63,960Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $64,720Columbus, OH — $64,810Boulder, CO — $65,780San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $69,630San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $72,710Eau Claire, WI — $78,090San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $80,290Carson City, NV — $81,600

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Washington metro area has the 23rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 205 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$65,270Social and Human Service Assistants$48,370Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$77,420Child, Family, and School Social Workers$75,550Rehabilitation Counselors$48,290Healthcare Social Workers$80,710

Highest-paying metro areas for community health workerss · Highest-paying occupations in Washington Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.