Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Direct Support Professional: $44K median posted pay.
From 49 salary bands employers posted on 204 open direct support professional roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 6 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Rhahealthservices | 110 | — |
| BAYADA Home Health Care | 46 | — |
| DABS, Inc. | 26 | — |
| oosmanagementcorp | 7 | — |
| Access Services | 6 | — |
| Phoenix Home Care and Hospice | 4 | — |
| Liberty Behavioral & Community Services, Inc. | 2 | — |
| Example Corp | 2 | — |
| Above and Beyond Therapy | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open direct support professional roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Special Needs Support | 204 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 121 | — |
| Medication Administration | 88 | — |
| Community Outreach | 74 | — |
| Activities of Daily Living Support | 21 | — |
| Classroom Teaching | 14 | — |
| Conflict Resolution | 13 | — |
| Home Health Aide Work | 11 | — |
| Behavior Intervention | 7 | — |
| Housekeeping | 6 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%1 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site96%196 roles
- Not stated3%7 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 204 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 49 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Direct Support Professional (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.