Cost guide · Updated August 2026
Roughly $26 to $50 an hour, and the reason nobody will give you one number is that every Visiting Angels office is an independently owned franchise setting its own rates against local wages.
Their corporate site describes caregiver rates as mid-$30s to mid-$40s. Individual franchise pages published figures from $30 to $50, one Florida office quotes $34 to $36, and an Omaha page quotes $15 to $35 with a three-hour minimum. Independent reviewers put the range at $26 to $40 and $26 to $44. All of those were live on the same day, 25 August 2026.
These are real quotes from Visiting Angels’ own pages and from independent reviewers, gathered the same day. The disagreement is the point.
Read 25 August 2026. Rates change and franchises differ, so treat this as the shape of the market rather than a quote. Only your local office can give you a real number.
Those are arithmetic at the national median, not quotes. They are here because the hourly rate is a misleading way to think about home care. The number that matters is the weekly schedule multiplied by the minimum visit length.
If your parent needs help with bathing, dressing, getting out of a chair, cooking, or getting to appointments, a caregiver in the room is the answer and there is no cheap version of it. That work needs hands, and hands cost what hands cost. Nothing on a phone or a screen substitutes for it, and anyone selling you otherwise is selling you something that will fail at the worst moment.
Visiting Angels has been doing this since 1998, the caregivers are screened and trained, and a local office can usually adjust the schedule as needs change. That is a genuine service and the price reflects a real person’s wages.
If it is the second one, a daily call covers it. Call Mabel rings the phone they already use, landline included, talks with them, and calls up to three family contacts when something sounds off. It is $29.97 a month. A single three-hour visit a week costs more in one month than Call Mabel costs in a year. It also does far less: nobody arrives, nothing gets lifted, no one drives them anywhere.
Related reading: what private home care costs, companion homecare explained, and Call Mabel compared with Home Instead.
Roughly $26 to $50 an hour. Visiting Angels' own corporate page describes caregiver rates as ranging from the mid-$30s to the mid-$40s, individual franchise pages quote figures from about $30 to $50, one Florida office publishes $34 to $36, and independent reviewers report ranges of $26 to $40 and $26 to $44. There is no single national rate because every office is separately owned and sets its own prices against local wages.
Because Visiting Angels is a franchise. Each location is independently owned and operated, and each one prices against what caregivers earn in that local market. That is why their own website carries dozens of different cost pages with different numbers on them, and why an online figure from another state tells you very little about what you will actually be quoted.
Franchise pages give a useful picture. One quotes $385 to $425 a week for twelve hours, spread as four hours over three days. A Wisconsin office quotes roughly $350 to $500 a week for regular help and $1,000 to $1,500 a week for more intensive daily assistance. A Colorado office estimates $459 to $561 a week for companion care. As a rough rule, three hours a day three days a week lands somewhere near $1,400 to $1,900 a month.
Usually yes, and it is the detail that most changes the bill. Several franchise pages state a minimum visit, commonly around three hours, and one Florida office states a minimum hour requirement outright. If you wanted someone to look in for thirty minutes a day you cannot buy that, so the effective cost per useful hour is higher than the hourly rate suggests. Ask about the minimum before you ask about the rate.
Generally no. Medicare does not pay for non-medical companion or personal care when that is the only help someone needs. It covers part-time skilled home health under a doctor-ordered plan of care, which is a different service. Families usually pay privately, or use a Medicaid waiver, long-term care insurance, or VA Aid and Attendance if they qualify.
It depends entirely on what you need. If your parent needs hands-on help with bathing, dressing, transfers, meals or transport, there is no cheap substitute, because that work requires a person in the room and a person costs what a person costs. If what you actually need is for someone to make contact every day and tell you when something has changed, a daily call service such as Call Mabel is $29.97 a month against roughly $455 a month for a single three-hour visit each week.
A daily call on the phone they already have. $29.97 a month, no minimum hours.
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