Size and characteristics of the New York PAS workforce, 2005-07

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Size and characteristics of the New York PAS workforce, 2005-07
Annual earnings
	Number of PAS workers	Percent of PAS workers

Total	143,200	100.0

Gender
Male	11,200	7.8
Female	132,000	92.2

Average age (years)	45.7

Race/ethnicity
White	46,400	32.4
African American	59,600	41.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	10,100	7.1
Native American	700	0.5
Latino/Hispanic	38,500	26.9

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	52,800	36.9
Other countries	90,300	63.1

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	23,100	16.1
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	63,300	44.2

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	102,600	71.7
Personal or home care attendant	36,800	25.7
Other	3,800	2.6

Type of employment
Self-employed	7,600	5.3
Works for employer	135,600	94.7
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	100,400	70.1
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	104,200	72.8


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$18,300
Full-time year-round workers	$23,100

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
New York	3.8
National average	7.3

† Estimate has low statistical reliability (standard error is greater than 30% of estimate).
— Estimate is less than 50 people or 0.05 percent.

These estimates are based on an analysis conducted by the Center for Personal Assistance Services of a three-year combined sample of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. PAS workers were identified according to both their occupation and industry of employment ( for details, see Kaye, H. S., Chapman, S., Newcomer, R. J., & Harrington, C. (2006). The Personal Assistance Workforce: Trends in supply and demand. Health Affairs, 25(4), 1113-1120). Because many PAS workers may not report this work to the Census Bureau as their primary occupation, the statistics presented probably underestimate the true number of workers in each state.

The number of workers by race and ethnicity may add up to more than the total for two reasons:

people can identify multiple races, in which case they are listed in more than one category, and
people identifying as Latino/Hispanic are also listed in a racial category (for example, white or African American).

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