Recruiting and retaining qualified staff starts with understanding how your compensation package compares with the market. HCAF’s 2026 Florida Home Care Salary & Benefits Report is now available for purchase, offering Florida-specific data to help agencies evaluate pay, benefits, and workforce practices as they plan for 2027.

For decades, HCAF has surveyed Florida home care providers about employee compensation and fringe benefits. This year’s 57-page report reflects responses from 124 providers, ranging from small, independent agencies to large organizations with multiple locations. It includes compensation data from Medicare-certified agencies, Medicaid-participating providers, and agencies offering exclusively private pay services.

What’s Inside?

The report goes beyond base wages to examine the broader employment package agencies use to attract and retain staff. It includes:

• Compensation Across Agency Roles: Starting and current hourly pay for administrative, support, and clinical staff, along with per-visit, per diem, and contracted 1099 clinician rates.
• Regional and Provider Comparisons: Statewide results and three regional groupings covering Florida’s 11 health care planning regions, plus dedicated information for exclusively private pay providers.
• Pay Differentials and Recruitment Incentives: Holiday, evening, weekend, and on-call compensation, employee referral incentives, and sign-on bonuses.
• Benefits and Pay Adjustments: Insurance and retirement offerings, benefit eligibility, mileage reimbursement, merit increases, cost-of-living adjustments, and bonuses.
• Time Off and Productivity Expectations: Paid time off (PTO), vacation and sick leave, holidays, accrual and carryover practices, clinician productivity standards, and visit lengths.

Compensation tables include response counts, averages, medians, and reported high and low rates, helping readers interpret the results and select comparisons relevant to their agency.

Why Purchase the Report?

A competitive employment offer involves more than an hourly rate. Benefits, time off, recruitment incentives, and workload expectations can all influence whether an applicant accepts a position and whether an experienced employee stays.

The report helps agency leaders bring context to those decisions. For example, 77% of respondents to the employee recruitment incentive question reported offering monetary referral incentives, while 25% of respondents to the sign-on bonus question offered those bonuses. These findings illustrate why reviewing the full compensation package matters.

Whether your agency is preparing its annual budget, reviewing a difficult-to-fill position, updating benefits, or evaluating clinician workloads, the report provides a Florida-focused reference to support informed decisions. Regional and provider-specific groupings help you look beyond statewide averages to the comparisons most relevant to your organization.

Pricing and How to Order

• HCAF Members: $250
• Prospective Members: $350
• Agencies That Completed the Survey: Complimentary

The report is delivered electronically. Click here to visit the HCAF online store to purchase the report.