Personal care and service workers, all other

SOC 39-9099 · 39-0000 · Score reference month September 2026

All personal care and service workers not listed separately.

In short

The national Job Market Health score is in the Balanced band for September 2026.

Job Market Health score

46/ 100
Balanced

Stable

Confidence
High
Restated score
46
Methodology
v1.0
Geography
US
  • At least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.

Job Market Health scores are derived indicators based on published data, informational only, not a forecast or guarantee.

$41,600Median annual wageOEWS May 2025
14,400Projected annual openingsBLS Employment Projections 2025-2035
+5.9%Projected growth2025–2035
60,420Total employmentOEWS May 2025

Latest interpretation

What stands out for personal care and service workers, all other

The clearest signals from the latest validated score, outlook and metro data.

Long-term outlook is the strongest component

Long-term outlook scores 85/100, compared with 22/100 for occupation fundamentals, a 63-point difference.

JobMarketHealth score components

Published long-term outlook

BLS projects 14,400 average annual openings and +5.9% employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Projected openings are a modeled annual average, not vacancies open today.

BLS Employment Projections

Largest published metro market

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA has the largest published metro employment count for personal care and service workers, all other, at 11,120 jobs. The next-largest published metro is Salem, OR with 2,870 jobs. This measures employment scale, not market quality.

BLS OEWS

Local market context

QCEW industry conditions for this occupation’s employment mix

Choose a state to see how the industries that employ this occupation are performing locally.

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How to read this section

QCEW measures employment and wages by industry, not by occupation. We weight those industry conditions using the published industry mix for this occupation. These figures describe the industries that employ this occupation; they are not direct counts of people working in the occupation or jobs currently open.

Source: BLS QCEW. This section is not part of the national 0 to 100 Job Market Health score. See the methodology.

Compare states for personal care and service workers, all otherSide-by-side published industry conditions for two or three states. There is no state-level health score; the 0 to 100 score is national.

How to read this page

The score is a national composite from 0 to 100 that weights near term hiring demand at 50 percent, the occupation's own employment fundamentals at 30 percent, and long-term outlook at 20 percent. Wages and occupation profile details are context shown alongside it, not score inputs. See the full methodology.

Median annual wage and metro employment come from BLS OEWS, which is annual. Projected annual openings and projected growth come from BLS Employment Projections and describe the published projection horizon, so they are not a count of jobs open today. Values shown as not published are suppressed by the source rather than filled in here.

Job Market Health trend

Published composite score · 0–100 · by reference month

Latest published values
  • Sep 2646 / 100
View values: Job Market Health history
Job Market Health history
Reference monthScore / 100
Jan 2558
Feb 2555
Mar 2553
Apr 2552
May 2553
Jun 2550
Jul 2548
Aug 2545
Sep 2547
Oct 2546
Nov 2546
Dec 2545
Jan 2648
Feb 2647
Mar 2648
Apr 2647
May 2648
Jun 2647
Jul 2647
Aug 2646
Sep 2646

Score components

The three published inputs behind the composite · each 0–100

Current demand45 / 100
Occupation fundamentals22 / 100
Long-term outlook85 / 100

Largest metro markets by employment

OEWS employment count, where the jobs are, not a quality ranking

OEWS May 2025. These occupation counts describe the survey reference period.

Linked metro names open overall job-market profiles.

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Employment · number of jobs

  • Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA11,120
  • Salem, OR2,870
  • Eugene-Springfield, OR2,350
  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,860
  • Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL1,690
  • Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,600
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,440
  • Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV1,280
  • Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,240
  • Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,160
Largest metro markets by employment
Metro areaEmploymentJobs per 1,000Median annual wage
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA11,1209.20$41,600
Salem, OR2,87015.21$41,600
Eugene-Springfield, OR2,35014.91$41,600
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,8600.20$42,000
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL1,6900.60$34,830
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,6000.26$43,160
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,4400.50$23,850
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV1,2801.13$34,960
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,2400.40$35,300
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,1600.40$32,720

Education & training

Typical entry requirements · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035

Typical education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience
None
On-the-job training
Short-term on-the-job training
Projected employment
100,200 jobs

Top skills

Occupation profile · O*NET 31.0 Database

O*NET skills are not available in this published occupation profile. Other figures on this page use their separately listed sources.

Sources and methodology

The datasets behind the figures on this page

Job Market Health score
Score for reference month September 2026 · methodology v1.0 · MethodologyScore last recalculated Nov 3, 2026 · First published Nov 3, 2026
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Employment, wages and largest metros · OEWS May 2025 · publisher release May 15, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
BLS Employment Projections
Projected growth, openings, education and training · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035 · publisher release Aug 27, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
O*NET
Skills, alternate titles and related occupations · O*NET 31.0 Database · publisher release date not verified · About this sourceRetrieved Oct 19, 2026

Values marked “Not published” are suppressed or not published by the source. We leave them blank rather than estimating them. Pipeline status for every source is on Data Status.

Evidence record

JobMarketHealth derived indicator; not a government statistic. The composite score is national and occupation level.

Occupation
Personal care and service workers, all other
SOC code
39-9099
Geography
United States
Reference month
September 2026
Published Job Market Health score
46 / 100
Restated score
46 / 100
Band
Balanced
Current Demand component
45 / 10050% weight
Occupation Fundamentals component
22 / 10030% weight
Long-Term Outlook component
85 / 10020% weight
Confidence
HighAt least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.
Methodology version
v1.0
Source vintage: Annual
EP-2025-2035|CPS-25b-2025|OEWS-2020-2025
Source vintage: Monthly calculated at
2026-11-03T20:58:17.587Z
First published at
Nov 3, 2026
Recalculated at
Nov 3, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/personal-care-and-service-workers-all-other#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth

Keep going

Learn how to judge a market from these numbers in how to tell if a job market is healthy, or why projected growth and annual openings often disagree in projected growth vs projected annual openings. Coverage, revisions and limits are explained on about the data.

The datasets behind these figures, and what each one can and cannot show, are set out on data sources.