Caregiver Jobs in Gustine, CA
Gustine is a small incorporated city on the western edge of Merced County, with 5,955 residents and an older age profile than the county as a whole. Requests from families in ZIP 95322 appear above when families publish them, and a wider radius brings in Newman and Los Banos.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Gustine
The Department of Finance's E-1 report counts 5,955 Gustine residents for 2026. Its median resident is 44.1 years old in ACS 2020–2024, well above the county's young profile, and 1,064 residents (17.3%) are 65 or older; 360 of them are between 75 and 84 and another 67 are 85 or over. Almost three in ten of the city's 2,503 households (719, or 28.7%) include someone 65 or older, and in 236 of them the householder is 65 or older and lives alone. Among residents 65 and up, 39.2% report a disability.
The work, then, is mostly in private homes. Gustine has no hospital, nursing facility or home health agency in CDPH's September 2026 licensing list, and CDSS's May 2025 file shows no licensed elder care home in the city (a six-bed home on Payne Avenue is listed as closed). What it does have is two Community Health Centers of America sites on Fifth Street. In your profile, state that you live in or near 95322, say if you have a car, and note any Spanish: 44.6% of Gustine residents over age four use Spanish at home, and 29.4% speak English less than very well.
Families looking for private caregivers near Gustine, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to Gustine by distance. 1 caregiver within 50 miles already have profiles here.
No open postings in Gustine right now
No family within 50 miles has an open posting today. Nearest current postings: California, CA, about 87 miles away. A profile created now is visible to Merced County families as soon as they join, and they can send you a direct request.
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Types of caregiver jobs in Gustine
Expect requests for a few hours a day of personal care, meals, light housekeeping, medication reminders and company for a parent who lives alone, plus rides to clinic visits on Fifth Street or farther afield. Many Gustine caregivers are relatives paid through IHSS for county-authorized hours. If you have no experience yet, companionship and errands for an older neighbor are a fair place to start, and the Merced College CNA course in Los Banos is the step toward facility jobs.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in Gustine: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Merced, CA metro (all of Merced County); 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, Merced, CA metro (all of Merced County) | $16.50 median ($16.82 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 4,990 jobs; concentration 2.27× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Merced County | $17.50 | CDSS; effective January 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.
Merced County projection: 4,650 aide jobs in 2023 to 5,830 in 2033 (+25.4%), about 8,810 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.
About 10.4% of Gustine's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, in a labor force of roughly 2,880 people. That is higher than Merced County's 9.5% and about twice California's 5.3%, and the monthly figure ranged from 9.1% to 11.7%. Against that backdrop, regular care hours count for a lot: a provider through Merced County IHSS earns $17.50 for each authorized hour.
Watch the county line. The IHSS rate follows the county where the client lives, so a client in Gustine pays out at Merced's $17.50, while one across the line in Newman, in Stanislaus County, pays out at $18.75 from July 1, 2026. UC Berkeley's inventory of local minimum wages lists no Gustine ordinance, which leaves California's $16.90 as the lowest lawful private rate; a personal attendant is also due overtime at 1.5 times pay after nine hours in one day or 45 in one week. The median household in Gustine earns $59,532 a year in ACS and median gross rent at $1,395, numbers worth keeping in mind when you quote a private rate.
How to enroll as a provider in Merced County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Merced 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 Gustine
California's rules apply unchanged in Gustine. Private non-medical work arranged directly with a family carries no license requirement, and registry listing as a home care aide becomes compulsory only if an agency is your employer. To be paid by IHSS, you enroll with Merced County (the steps, orientation and phone numbers are in the Merced County IHSS guide), and you will not need to leave town for fingerprints, because the state's Live Scan directory includes the Gustine Police Department, 682 Third Avenue, with walk-in hours Tuesday through Thursday, 8 to 11 a.m. and noon to 3 p.m., for $32; call (209) 854-3737 first. CNA work in a facility needs CDPH certification. California law also makes you a mandated reporter of elder abuse once you are paid for care. More in the California requirements guide.
Training and career resources near Gustine
Where Gustine caregivers can train, find work and get around; details checked with each provider in October 2026.
- Merced College Nurse Assistant course (Los Banos campus)Course ALLH-63 teaches the basic nursing skills that nursing assistants use in skilled nursing facilities; the fall and spring sessions last 16 weeks, the summer one nine, and classes meet at both the Merced and Los Banos campuses. The Los Banos campus is at 22240 Highway 152, (209) 826-3495.
- The Micro Bus (west-side on-demand transit)Rides within and between Gustine, Santa Nella, Los Banos and Dos Palos, booked in the app or on (209) 725-3813. Last pickups are 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 5:30 p.m. at weekends; the fare is $1.50, and seniors, veterans and ADA-certified riders go free. Transfers to the LB Commuter are free.
- Prospero Job Centers in Los BanosFree job-search help from the county workforce network at its Breaking Barriers site in Los Banos, phone (209) 710-6043, or its office inside the Merced College Los Banos campus, (209) 710-6140.
- Gustine Police Department Live ScanWalk-in fingerprinting at 682 Third Avenue on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which covers the background check step of IHSS enrollment. $32, plus any agency fee.
- City of Gustine, City Hall352 Fifth Street, open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., (209) 854-6471. The city rents out the Al Goman Center, its parks and the library for events, and posts its own job openings online.
Gustine in numbers
The city's own description places Gustine five miles off Interstate 5, where State Highways 140 and 33 meet, and calls it a bedroom community for the Bay Area. Census figures fit the commuting part: workers average 34.4 minutes to their jobs and only 1.9% work from home. Of 2,675 housing units, 6.4% stood empty; owners live in 56.6% of the occupied ones, a typical owner's home is worth $441,700 by the ACS median, and 3.2% of households have no vehicle. Hispanic or Latino residents make up 56.6% of the population, and 221 residents are veterans.
For clinic visits, Community Health Centers of America runs a primary care site at 489 Fifth Street and a specialty site at 554 Fifth Street, each listed by HRSA at 40 hours a week. Memorial Hospital Los Banos, a Sutter Health hospital at 520 West I Street, is described on the Los Banos page. For the Area Agency on Aging and other countywide offices, see Merced County; for jobs across the Stanislaus line, see Newman.
How to find private caregiver jobs in Gustine (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Gustine
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Gustine is part of Merced County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Gustine city
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Merced, CA (31-1120)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Merced County
- City of Gustine, City Hall, Community Characteristics, Public Transportation and FAQs
- The Bus (Merced County Transit), The Micro Bus
- Merced College, Nurse Assistant program
- Prospero Workforce, job center locations
- HRSA, Health Center Service Delivery Sites data file
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- Sutter Health, Memorial Hospital Los Banos
Caregiver jobs in Gustine: frequently asked questions
What does IHSS pay a provider in Gustine?
Merced County's rate, $17.50 an hour since January 1, 2026. If your client lives over the line in Newman, the Stanislaus County rate of $18.75 applies instead, because the wage follows where the recipient lives, not where you do.
Where can I get fingerprinted in Gustine?
At the police department on Third Avenue, which the Attorney General lists as a Live Scan site with walk-in hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings and early afternoons. The fee listed is $32.
Are there nursing homes or assisted living facilities in Gustine that hire aides?
Not according to the state files read for this page: CDPH lists no nursing facility or home health agency in Gustine, and the only elder care home in the CDSS data is marked closed. Facility CNA jobs are elsewhere in the county, so most local work is in clients' homes.
How do I reach clients in Gustine without a car?
Book the Micro Bus, which covers Gustine, Santa Nella, Los Banos and Dos Palos on demand for $1.50 a ride. It connects with the LB Commuter to Merced, and riders aged 62 and over travel free on that route.
Do I need to speak Spanish to work in Gustine?
Not always, but it widens your options. ACS 2020–2024 finds 44.6% of residents speak Spanish at home, so list it, and any other language you use, in your profile.
How do Gustine families find me?
They post on the Gustine family page, and their requests appear here. Joining and applying are free for caregivers, and no commission is taken from your earnings.
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