Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) are
professionals, who work under the guidance of RN (Registered Nurse).
As a nurse aide, you would be responsible providing medical and
emotional support to the patients, while assisting them in their
daily activities. The nursing aides can work in hospitals, clinical
care centers, retirement homes, home environment or any other medical
setting.
The average salary of a certified
nursing aide is around USD 24,000 per annum. This salary is quite
less as compared to the average salary of all the other CNAs working
across the United States. If you have any relevant work experience as
CNA in nursing home environment, then you can expect better salary
package.
While calculating the salary of nursing
aide working in nursing home environment, other factors should be
considered such as social security allowance, 401K/403B allowance,
healthcare allowance, pension allowance, disability allowance, and
paid time off. The social security allowance is around USD 1800
approximately. Disability allowance of USD 168 approximately is paid
to the nursing aides. You can add around USD 1500 approximately under
pension allowance. The 401K/403B allowance rounds up to USD 900
approximately.
When the salary of CNAs working in
nursing home environment if calculate considering the above
additional allowances, then it reaches to around USD 38000 annually.