CNA Salary in Pennsylvania
Nursing assistants work in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, hospitals, medical centers, hospices, rehabilitation centers and home health-care agencies. Some work as live-in caregivers. Nursing assistants must be certified to work in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities that accept reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. Many other employers prefer certification because it verifies a standard of competence. To become a certified nursing assistant in Pennsylvania, an individual must complete a state-approved training course and pass an exam.
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Geography
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Salaries for CNAs in Pennsylvania vary by city, but not to an extreme degree. CNAs in Uniontown have a median annual salary of $25,757 as of March 2011, for example, while CNAs in Philadelphia have a median salary of $29,801, according to Salary.com. The median salary for CNAs in Erie is $26,728, in Wilkes-Barre $27,067, in Pittsburgh $27,320, in Lancaster $27,518, in Harrisburg $27,659 and in Reading $28,194.
Salary Range
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Nationally, CNAs earn median yearly wages of $28,194, identical to the median salary in Reading. All the Pennsylvania cities in this sample grouping rank in the middle 50 percent nationwide for CNA salaries, which is about $25,740 to $30,960 as of March 2011. The lowest salaries are in Uniontown, where the bottom 10 percent earn less than $21,500 per year, and the highest salaries are in Philadelphia, where the top 10 percent earn more than $35,380 per year.
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Nursing Home Salaries
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Although nursing homes are a primary employer of CNAs, salaries there are typically lower than in other employment settings. CNAs working in nursing homes in Uniontown earn a median salary of $21,899 per year as of March 2011, in Pittsburgh $23,228 and in Philadelphia $25,337, according to Salary.com.
Benefits
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Full-time CNAs and some part-time CNAs receive benefit packages in addition to paid compensation. Examples of benefits from a Pennsylvania employer of CNAs, Golden Living Centers, include a choice of health insurance plans, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, voluntary legal insurance, a health care spending account, a 401(k) savings plan, paid time off, lifestyle management programs, an employee assistance program, child care assistance, discount programs and services, nursing home discounts and referral bonuses.
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