Size and characteristics of the Wisconsin PAS workforce, 2005-07

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

Total	19,200	100.0

Gender
Male	1,900	9.7
Female	17,400	90.3

Average age (years)	40.5

Race/ethnicity
White	15,400	80.2
African American	3,400	17.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	0.1†
Native American	300†	1.6†
Latino/Hispanic	600†	3.2†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	18,700	97.3
Other countries	500†	2.7†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	4,000	21.0
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	9,200	47.8

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	9,500	49.4
Personal or home care attendant	8,000	41.4
Other	1,800	9.2

Type of employment
Self-employed	1,500	7.7
Works for employer	17,800	92.3
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	10,000	51.8
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	12,200	63.1


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$12,500
Full-time year-round workers	$21,600

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Wisconsin	6.4
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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