Caregiver Jobs in Galt, CA
Galt is the southernmost city in Sacramento County, with 27,133 residents in the state's 2026 count. Care requests from ZIP 95632 appear above once families publish them; widen your radius to reach Lodi and Elk Grove.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Galt
Galt grew up around a railroad town that the Central Pacific laid out in 1869; a local rancher, John McFarland, asked that it be named after his home town in Canada. Today most of the city's care work is spread through its neighborhoods rather than gathered at one hospital. The largest single employer of hands-on aides inside city limits is Rancho Seco Care Center at 144 F Street, which CDPH licenses as a 99-bed skilled nursing facility. Primary care happens at Galt Medical Services on Civic Drive, a clinic the state lists under the Lodi Memorial Hospital Association, and at WellSpace Health's site on North Lincoln Way. Private families who call for help have usually seen one of those doors recently.
Commuting decides a lot here. In ACS 2020–2024, 71.2% of working Galt residents drove to work alone, 13.3% carpooled and just 1.0% took public transit, with an average trip of 31.2 minutes. After English, Spanish is the language heard most in Galt homes: 32.2% of residents aged five or over use it, and 12.6% are Spanish speakers whose English, by their own rating, is under "very well." If you can talk with a client and a doctor in Spanish, lead your profile with it, then add whether you have a car and the miles you are willing to cover. South County Transit's Highway 99 Express also links Galt City Hall with Lodi, Cosumnes River College, Kaiser South Sacramento and Methodist Hospital, which helps if you do not own a car.
Families looking for private caregivers near Galt, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to Galt by distance. 2 caregivers within 50 miles already have profiles here.
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No family within 50 miles has an open posting today. Nearest current postings: California, CA, about 69 miles away. A profile created now is visible to Sacramento County families as soon as they join, and they can send you a direct request.
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Types of caregiver jobs in Galt
Expect practical requests: help with showering and dressing in the morning, meals and medication reminders for a widowed parent, rides to a clinic on Civic Drive or to specialists up Highway 99, and watching over a parent with memory loss during a son's or daughter's work shift. Plenty of Galt jobs suit a beginner who starts with companionship, errands and light housework. Not one home care organization in the May 2025 CDSS file lists a Galt address, so the agency route usually means working for a company based in Lodi, Elk Grove or Sacramento, while private hires are arranged straight with the family.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in Galt: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties); 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, Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties) | $16.50 median ($17.20 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 60,350 jobs; concentration 2.02× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Sacramento County | $19.15 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties) | $22.84 median | BLS OEWS, May 2025 (certified roles, for comparison) |
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.
Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties) projection: 55,230 aide jobs in 2023 to 73,060 in 2033 (+32.3%), about 111,260 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections published April 2026). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.
About 5.7% of Galt's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. That is slightly above California's 5.3% and above Sacramento County's 5.0%, in a labor force of roughly 13,100 people, so Galt is not a high-unemployment town, but steady, nearby work still counts. Sacramento County IHSS pays providers $19.15 for each authorized hour, and the Sacramento County IHSS guide walks through enrollment.
The BLS figures blend four counties, so treat the $16.50 median as a regional reading taken before the state minimum rose to $16.90. Galt is absent from the Labor Center's list of local wage laws, so private and agency pay here can go no lower than California's $16.90. When a family employs you itself as a personal attendant, state law adds overtime for any day longer than nine hours and any week over 45. One county-line point matters in Galt: the client's home county sets IHSS pay, so someone just across the line in Lodi is paid at San Joaquin County's $18.97, not Sacramento's $19.15. ACS puts Galt's median household income at $94,393 and the median gross rent at $1,596.
How to enroll as a provider in Sacramento County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Sacramento 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.
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to Galt
Nothing local changes the state rules in Galt. Non-medical work for a Galt household that pays you directly requires no license; you need a registry listing only when a licensed agency hires you. Nursing assistant work at Rancho Seco Care Center calls for CDPH certification. IHSS pay starts after enrollment with the Sacramento County IHSS Public Authority, which handles orientation, the provider agreement and Live Scan for the whole county; the county page has the steps. For fingerprints, the Attorney General's Sacramento County list includes one Live Scan site with a Galt address, The UPS Store on Twin Cities Road, so call before you go. Suspected abuse or neglect of a client is something California requires you to report. See the Sacramento County page and the requirements guide.
Training and career resources near Galt
Galt employers, classes and transport that matter to caregivers, checked this month against each one's own site or state records.
- Rancho Seco Care Center, 144 F StreetSkilled nursing facility licensed and certified by CDPH for 99 beds, first licensed in 1967. No other Galt address appears among the state's skilled nursing listings, which makes it the place in town where a certified nursing assistant can work shifts without commuting. (209) 745-1537.
- Galt Adult SchoolFree classes for adults 18 and older in English as a Second Language, citizenship and an introductory digital literacy course; registration is required, and the computer class has materials in English and Spanish with a bilingual teacher aide. Useful if you want stronger English or computer skills before applying for agency or IHSS work.
- Highway 99 Express (SCT-Link)Weekday buses leave Galt City Hall for Cosumnes River College, Kaiser South Sacramento and Methodist Hospital, and south to the Lodi Transit Center; the first leaves Galt at 5:20 a.m., and since July 1, 2026 service runs until 8:20 p.m. A Galt-to-Kaiser trip is $3.00, or $1.50 at the senior and disabled fare. Connect Cards can be bought or reloaded at the City Hall utility counter.
- SCT-Link Dial-A-RideCurb-to-curb rides inside Galt city limits, weekdays 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Saturdays 8 to 4. A personal care attendant may travel with a rider who has a disability when both share the same pickup and drop-off. Book up to two weeks ahead on (209) 745-3052.
- Galt Senior Resource CenterA volunteer-staffed information desk for older residents inside the Chabolla Community Center on Chabolla Avenue, open Monday 10 to 3 and Tuesday to Thursday 10 to 2. Knowing what it offers helps you point a client toward local services; it also takes volunteers on (209) 294-3308.
Galt in numbers
Galt's 2026 population, per the Department of Finance, is 27,133. The ACS survey for 2020–2024 counted 3,880 people aged 65 or older (14.9%) and 443 aged 85 or more, with a median age of 38.3; women are 55.5% of the older group. Almost a third of the city's 8,394 households (31.3%) include someone 65 or older, and 681 are older people living alone. A disability is reported by 41.0% of residents 65 and over, and 8.5% of them live below the poverty line. Education, health care and social assistance employ 25.1% of working residents, and 45.6% of residents are Hispanic or Latino.
Away from Rancho Seco, the licensed long-term care in Galt is small-scale. CDSS files dated May 2025 list three licensed elder care homes (RCFEs) with Galt addresses, holding 27 beds between them, plus adult residential homes and one adult day program on C Street. So most older people who need help in Galt get it in their own homes. The city sits on the San Joaquin County line, and nearby pages cover Lodi, Elk Grove and Stockton.
How to find private caregiver jobs in Galt (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Galt
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
Galt is part of Sacramento County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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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
- City of Galt, Galt History
- City of Galt, Transit Services (South County Transit agreement, Connect Card counter)
- City of Galt, Galt Senior Resource Center
- South County Transit (SCT-Link), Highway 99 Express schedule and fares
- South County Transit (SCT-Link), Dial-A-Ride route information and July 1, 2026 service changes
- Galt Adult School
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances (modified September 30, 2026)
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- Sacramento County IHSS Public Authority, provider enrollment
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Sacramento County
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Galt city
Caregiver jobs in Galt: frequently asked questions
Is there a nursing home in Galt that hires CNAs?
On F Street, Rancho Seco Care Center holds a CDPH license for 99 skilled nursing beds, and no other skilled nursing facility in the state listing has a Galt address. Its nursing assistant jobs require state certification; call (209) 745-1537 and ask whether it is hiring.
What does IHSS pay a provider in Galt?
$19.15 an hour, the Sacramento County rate effective January 1, 2026. Because the client's county sets it, a client living in Lodi is paid San Joaquin County's $18.97.
Can I get to work in Galt without a car?
Partly. SCT-Link Dial-A-Ride covers addresses inside city limits on weekdays and Saturdays, and the Highway 99 Express runs to Elk Grove, South Sacramento and Lodi. Rural addresses outside the Dial-A-Ride area are reached only on its Tuesday Lifeline service.
Where in Galt can I be fingerprinted for Live Scan?
The Attorney General's Sacramento County list shows The UPS Store #7570 at 10430 Twin Cities Road. If you are enrolling as an IHSS provider, bring the Public Authority's own Live Scan form.
Is Galt's unemployment rate high?
Only slightly above average. EDD's 12-month estimate is about 5.7%, against 5.3% statewide and 5.0% for Sacramento County, in a labor force of roughly 13,100.
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