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Cotati, California · Sonoma County
Caregiver Jobs in Cotati, CA
Cotati, a Sonoma County city of 7,264 as of January 2026 per state Department of Finance figures, has more private households than care facilities hiring. Each family request for 94931 appears in the list above once it is posted.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Cotati
Cotati has very little institutional care, which shapes where a caregiver finds work here. The state health department's October 16, 2026 facility list puts no hospital, hospice, nursing home or home health agency inside Cotati. Community Care Licensing's file of May 25, 2025 lists one licensed elder care home with a Cotati address, Sunset House on Willow Avenue, licensed for nine residents, plus A Step Up on East Cotati Avenue, a 12-bed social rehabilitation facility. No licensed home care organization is based here either. Most paid care in Cotati is therefore arranged directly with a family, through IHSS, or through agencies headquartered elsewhere in the county.
That makes your profile the main tool. Name Cotati and the neighborhoods you can reach, list the help you give (bathing, transfers, meals, medication reminders, rides), and say whether you also cover Rohnert Park, which the county transit agency describes as adjacent, and Penngrove. A second language is worth listing: in ACS 2020–2024, 12.3% of Cotati residents aged five-plus use Spanish in the home, and 8.5% of them are not fully fluent in English. Commuting here is mostly by car (71.3% drive alone), though 2.2% of workers use transit and 15.2% work from home; the mean commute is 28.6 minutes.
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Families looking for private caregivers near Cotati, CA
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Cotati
Typical Cotati requests: a few morning hours of personal care, a companion who can walk with a parent to La Plaza Park or join them at a Functionally Fit class, someone to drive to Santa Rosa or Petaluma appointments, and short-term help after surgery. Beginners can start with companionship, errands and light housekeeping while working toward a CNA certificate.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Cotati: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Santa Rosa–Petaluma, CA metro; private rates on CaregiverConnect are agreed between each caregiver and family and are not tracked by any agency.
| Measure | Hourly | Source and coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Home health and personal care aides, Santa Rosa–Petaluma, CA metro | $17.72 median | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 10,150 jobs; concentration 1.79× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Sonoma County | $20.25 | CDSS; effective March 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
Who is the employer. A family that hires you directly is your employer under California's Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. The state minimum wage ($16.90 an hour from 1 January 2026; some cities set more, for example $17.75 in the City of San Diego) is the legal floor, and a personal attendant earns overtime at 1.5× after 9 hours in a day or 45 in a week. The main exceptions are IHSS recipients and an employer's own parent, spouse or child. Source: California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ.
About 2.8% of Cotati's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates; Sonoma County's rate was 4.3% and California's 5.3%. The city's labor force averaged around 4,225 people, and monthly figures ranged from 2.3% to 3.0%. In care work, the employer and the program matter more than that figure. IHSS providers with Sonoma County clients receive $20.25 an hour, the rate in force from March 1, 2026; the steps to enroll are in our Sonoma County IHSS guide.
BLS counted 10,150 aides in the Santa Rosa–Petaluma metro, which covers all of Sonoma County, in May 2025, with a median wage of $17.72 and a location quotient of 1.79. Cotati has not adopted a local minimum according to UC Berkeley's Labor Center tracker, which does list Petaluma ($18.31) and Santa Rosa ($18.21), so jobs inside Cotati start from the state's $16.90. If you travel to a client in Petaluma or Santa Rosa, ask whether that city's rate applies to your employer. When a Cotati household is itself the employer of a personal attendant, it owes overtime for any hours past nine on a single day and past 45 across one week. ACS 2020–2024 gives Cotati a median household income of $110,750 and a median rent of $2,056, a useful benchmark when you set a private hourly rate.
How to enroll as a provider in Sonoma County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Sonoma County guide. IHSS wages for every county we cover, with effective dates, are in the IHSS pay by county guide.
How the public numbers relate to private rates, and what affects them, is covered in the caregiver pay guide.
Rules
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to Cotati
Families in Cotati can employ you for non-medical personal care with no state license. Licensed home care organizations are another matter: before your first agency shift they must confirm you are listed as a registered home care aide with CDSS, a $35 application. Nursing facilities and hospitals elsewhere in the county take only nurse assistants certified by CDPH. For IHSS, the Sonoma County Public Authority enrolls providers and runs a registry; call (707) 565-5700 or go to 3725 Westwind Blvd in Santa Rosa. California law (WIC §15630) treats paid caregivers as mandated reporters, and Sonoma County APS takes those calls on (707) 565-5940 at all hours. Background: California caregiver requirements.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Cotati
We confirmed every item below on its provider's web page during October 2026.
- Santa Rosa Junior College nurse assistant courseSRJC's CNA certificate packs 226 hours into a 10-week term (spring, summer or fall), meeting three or four days each week. Clinical practice is in a Sonoma County long-term care facility, enrollment tops out at 30, and a final grade of C (70%) qualifies you for the state exam.
- SRJC Lifelong Learning classes in CotatiFree noncredit classes for older adults held at city rooms in Cotati this fall, including memoir writing, storytelling and Zumba Gold. Helping a client attend is an easy way to build a weekly routine together.
- Routes 10, 12 and 14, Cotati and Rohnert ParkFare-free Sonoma County Transit routes linking downtown Cotati with Rohnert Park shopping centers and neighborhoods, running about 6:15 a.m. to 6:11 p.m. on weekdays and from 7:33 a.m. on Saturdays.
- Route 48 to Petaluma and Santa RosaDaily intercity buses with zone fares ($1.50 to $3.00 for adults), connecting to Petaluma Transit at the Copeland Street Transit Mall and to Santa Rosa CityBus downtown. Route 26 also links Cotati with Sebastopol and Rohnert Park.
- Sonoma County IHSS Public AuthorityEnrollment help for new IHSS providers and the countywide registry that matches caregivers with clients: (707) 565-5700, Westwind Blvd office in Santa Rosa.
The area
Cotati in numbers
Cotati's median age is 38.5 in ACS 2020–2024, and 1,199 residents (16.0% of 7,489) are 65 or older and 117 are 85-plus. There are 927 households with a member aged 65-plus, 29.0% of 3,195, and 392 seniors live alone, 319 of them women. Disability is common in that age group (39.3%), and 12.8% of Cotati seniors have incomes under the federal poverty line. Fewer than half the homes are detached houses (47.9%), 59.2% are owner-occupied, 3.9% of households have no car, and 34.9% of renting households spend at least 35% of income on rent.
For hospital follow-up work, Route 48 runs to Petaluma, where CDPH lists the 80-bed Petaluma Valley Hospital, and to Santa Rosa, home to Kaiser, Sutter and Providence general hospitals. Nearby caregiver pages: Rohnert Park, Petaluma, Sebastopol and Santa Rosa; countywide programs are on the Sonoma County caregiver page.
How it works
How to find private caregiver jobs in Cotati (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Cotati
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
Cotati is part of Sonoma County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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Elsewhere in Sonoma County: Cloverdale
Guides
Useful reading
How to become a caregiver in California: requirements, HCA registry, IHSS and CNA explained · How much do caregivers make in California and Arizona? BLS, IHSS and minimum wage (2026) · Private caregiver jobs near you: how to find them without an agency · Caregiver interview preparation: questions families ask and how to answer them
Sources (checked 2026-10-20):
- City of Cotati, Senior Services
- City of Cotati, Recreation (Fall–Winter 2026 activity guide)
- Sonoma County Transit, SCT services in Cotati (Routes 10, 12, 14 and 48, paratransit)
- Santa Rosa Junior College, Nurse Assistant program
- Sonoma County, I Want to Become a Paid Caregiver
- Sonoma County, Adult Protective Services
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county (IP Effective 10-1-2026 sheet)
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances (modified September 30, 2026)
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- CDSS, Home Care Services application fees
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Cotati city
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Cotati: frequently asked questions
Are there nursing homes or agencies hiring in Cotati?
Not inside the city. CDPH licenses no hospital or nursing home in Cotati, nor any home health or hospice agency there, and state licensing shows one nine-bed elder care home. Most local work comes from families and IHSS clients.
Is unemployment high in Cotati?
No. EDD's 12-month average for Cotati, August 2025 to August 2026, is about 2.8%. Sonoma County averaged 4.3% and the state 5.3%.
Does Petaluma's $18.31 minimum wage apply in Cotati?
No. That ordinance covers work in Petaluma. Cotati is not on the Berkeley Labor Center list, so a Cotati job pays at least $16.90, the California minimum.
Can I get between Cotati clients by bus?
Within Cotati and Rohnert Park, yes: Routes 10, 12 and 14 are free and run from early morning to about 6 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays. Route 48 goes to Petaluma and Santa Rosa every day.
How do I start as an IHSS provider for a Cotati client?
Contact the Sonoma County Public Authority on (707) 565-5700 to begin enrollment. Once approved, you are paid $20.25 an hour for authorized IHSS hours.
Where do Cotati families find me?
They post on the Cotati family page under 94931, and you see those requests here. Joining as a caregiver is free, with no fee taken out of your earnings.
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