Caregiver Jobs in Inyo County
This page covers the whole of Inyo County: Bishop, Big Pine, Independence, Lone Pine, Tecopa, Shoshone and every place in between. Whichever of the nine residential ZIP codes a family posts from, its request lands in the listings above.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Inyo County
Inyo County is large and thinly populated. The county gives its area as 10,140 square miles, with 92.0% of the land federally owned, 3.9% owned by the City of Los Angeles and 1.7% private. The Department of Finance counted 18,780 residents on January 1, 2026. Bishop, with 3,852, is the only incorporated city; Independence is the county seat. Everyone else lives in census-designated places, the largest being Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek (2,780), West Bishop (2,754), Lone Pine (2,014) and Big Pine (1,875) at the 2020 Census.
In practice, care work centers on two towns. Bishop has Northern Inyo Hospital, the main county Aging and Social Services office and the provider registry; Lone Pine has Southern Inyo Hospital, its 33-bed nursing unit and a second county office. ACS 2020–2024 counts 4,675 residents aged 65 or older, 24.9% of the county, and about 1,458 households where someone aged 65-plus lives alone. A strong Inyo profile names every community you can get to each week and states plainly whether you can drive clients to the doctor.
Families looking for private caregivers in Inyo County
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Caregiver jobs by city and town
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- Caregiver jobs in Bishoppop. 3,852
The communities of Inyo County
One city and many census-designated places. Bishop has its own page; search other communities by ZIP code.
- BishopHome to Northern Inyo Hospital and Bishop Care Center, plus the main county aging office and the registry run by CSS.
- West Bishop and Dixon Lane-Meadow CreekCensus-designated places of 2,754 and 2,780 in 2020. The City of Bishop puts the wider Bishop area at roughly 10,000 people, against 3,819 inside its limits.
- Big PineSenior center at 150 Dewey Street, open at midday four weekdays.
- IndependenceThe county seat, with a Sheriff's Live Scan site.
- Lone Pine, Keeler and OlanchaSouthern Inyo Hospital and its nursing unit, the county office at 310 N. Jackson Street, a senior center and a Toiyabe clinic; Lone Pine Dial-a-Ride also books trips to Keeler.
- Tecopa, Shoshone and Furnace CreekThe Tecopa Senior Center keeps weekday hours of 8:00 to 4:00, (760) 852-4264.
Types of caregiver jobs in Inyo County
Private requests here are mostly non-medical: personal care, meals, housekeeping, errands and rides. IHSS is the other large source of home care work; the county sets the hours, the client picks the provider, and a relative can qualify. Facility and agency jobs sit with a few employers: the Southern Inyo hospital and nursing unit in Lone Pine and, in Bishop, Northern Inyo Hospital, Bishop Care Center, the Owens Valley hospice and Pioneer Home Health Care. Private and IHSS work need no license, which makes them the usual first step.
- Senior caregiving: day-to-day help so an older adult can stay at home.
- Personal care: bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers.
- Companion care: company, errands, appointments, light help.
- Dementia care: routine-based support for memory loss.
- Respite care: cover so a family caregiver can rest or work.
- Live-in: room and board as part of the arrangement.
- Overnight: supervision through the night.
- Part-time and full-time: set by day and time block on your profile.
Caregiver pay in Inyo County: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Inyo and six other 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, Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Inyo and six other counties) | $16.52 median ($17.48 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 2,220 jobs; concentration 1.27× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Inyo County | $17.65 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Inyo and six other counties) | $22.79 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.
BLS reports Inyo County only as part of the seven-county Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode nonmetro area, with Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Mono and Tuolumne. The May 2025 survey there counted 2,220 workers in the occupation (home health and personal care aides), whose median pay was $16.52, and 330 nursing assistants with a $22.79 median. The county's IHSS rate, $17.65 since New Year 2026, sits 75 cents above California's minimum. No Inyo town has a wage law of its own on UC Berkeley's list, meaning private employers owe at least $16.90, and a personal attendant is due overtime once the day's work tops nine hours or the week's tops 45.
About 4.5% of Inyo County's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, comfortably under California's 5.3%, with single months as low as 3.7% and as high as 5.1%. Care work therefore competes with other local jobs, and the steady weekly hours of an Inyo County IHSS provider are part of its appeal.
How to enroll as a provider in Inyo County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Inyo 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 Inyo County
California asks nothing of a caregiver whom an Inyo County household employs directly for non-medical tasks. Only an agency hire is obliged to enter the Home Care Aide Registry, and the CDSS licensing data contain no home care organization with an address in the county. Health and Human Services handles IHSS cases (Senior Services/IHSS, (760) 873-6364). Provider enrollment goes through Community Service Solutions, an Eastern Sierra nonprofit that has overseen the Inyo County IHSS Provider Registry since 2021. CSS gives you 90 days to finish the SOC 426 steps: return the signed form, clear the Live Scan check, attend orientation, then sign the SOC 846 agreement. Expect hospital and nursing-unit aide postings to ask for CDPH nurse assistant certification. Anyone paid to care for an elder must report suspected abuse. State detail: California caregiver requirements.
Training and career resources near Inyo County
Contacts that serve the whole county for enrollment, training and getting around; each was read on the provider's website in October 2026.
- Community Service Solutions, Inyo County IHSS Provider RegistryAt 407 W. Line Street, Suite 3, Bishop, (760) 872-2121. CSS matches recipients with registry providers, holds provider orientation at its Inyo and Mono County offices, and posts free training videos on bathing, dressing, mobility and behavioral health. Timesheet help: (866) 376-7066.
- Live Scan fingerprinting in Inyo CountyThree sites on the Attorney General's list, all by appointment: 207 W. Line Street (Bishop Police Department, $25); the Inyo County Office of Education, 166 Grandview Drive, Bishop ($20); and the Sheriff, 550 S. Clay Street, Independence ($25). CSS says to pay for the IHSS scan by cash or check.
- Cerro Coso Community College, Eastern Sierra College CenterThe college's site for Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine, Independence and Death Valley. The CNA course has a Bishop contact, (760) 872-1565; Home Health Aide is taught in Ridgecrest. See the Bishop page.
- Southern Inyo Healthcare District, Lone PineA critical access hospital at 501 E. Locust Street with 4 acute beds and a 33-bed distinct-part nursing unit in CDPH data. Main line (760) 876-5501, HR (760) 264-4292; the careers page lists an LVN opening in skilled nursing.
- Toiyabe Indian Health ProjectFounded in 1968 to serve nine Eastern Sierra tribal communities and now open to all patients, with clinics in Bishop and Lone Pine and a dialysis center in Bishop.
- Eastern Sierra Transit AuthorityRun jointly by Inyo and Mono counties, the City of Bishop and the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Lone Pine Dial-a-Ride operates weekdays 7:30 to 4:30 and Saturdays 10:00 to 6:00, $3 to $5, reservations (760) 614-0030; Highway 395 buses link Reno and Lancaster daily. Customer service 1-800-922-1930.
Inyo County in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 gives the county a median age of 45.5 and counts 538 residents aged 85 or older; 31.9% of people 65 or older have a disability. Close to one county resident in six speaks Spanish at home. Median household income is $73,991 and median gross rent $1,189. Only 0.7% of workers commute by public transit.
The September 16, 2026 CDPH facility data show two hospitals, Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop (25 beds) and Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine (4 acute beds plus the 33-bed nursing unit), one freestanding nursing home, Bishop Care Center (99 beds), one home health agency and one hospice, all in Bishop. There is no open elderly residential care home: CDSS records a single one, in Bishop, as closed. For the city itself, see the Bishop page; across the county line, compare the Mono County and Kern County pages.
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Useful reading before you apply
How to become a caregiver in California: requirements, HCA registry, IHSS and CNA explained
Which rules apply to a caregiver in California depends on who pays them. A plain-language map of the Home Care Aide Registry, IHSS provider enrolment and CNA/HHA certification, with the official sources.
How much do caregivers make in California and Arizona? BLS, IHSS and minimum wage (2026)
Median hourly pay for home health and personal care aides by metro area from the May 2025 BLS survey, county IHSS wages, state minimum wages, and how private rates relate to them.
Private caregiver jobs near you: how to find them without an agency
Where families who hire directly actually look, how to be found, what to put in writing, and the legal basics of being a household employee.
Caregiver interview preparation: questions families ask and how to answer them
What a family interview for private caregiving work really covers, the questions to expect, the questions you should ask, and what to bring.
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area
- BLS OEWS, May 2025 metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area definitions
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- Inyo County HHS, Public Assistance and Aging
- Inyo County HHS, Social and Placement Services (IHSS)
- Eastern Sierra IHSS (Community Service Solutions), provider steps, registry and contacts
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations in Inyo County
- Cerro Coso Community College, Allied Health and Eastern Sierra College Center
- Southern Inyo Healthcare District, careers and contacts
- Toiyabe Indian Health Project
- Eastern Sierra Transit Authority, Lone Pine Dial-a-Ride and Highway 395 routes
- City of Bishop, About and Demographics
- Inyo County, Demographics and 2020 community populations
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 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, Inyo County
Caregiver jobs in Inyo County: frequently asked questions
Who do I call about IHSS in Inyo County?
For a case or application, Senior Services/IHSS on (760) 873-6364; the Aging and Social Services office is at 1360 N. Main Street, Bishop, weekdays 8:00 to 5:00. To enroll as a provider, call Community Service Solutions on (760) 872-2121.
How much does Inyo County IHSS pay?
CDSS gives Inyo County providers $17.65 per hour, in force from January 2026. Work for a client whose home is in Mono or any other county is paid at whatever rate that county sets.
Is there nursing-home work in southern Inyo County?
Yes. Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine runs a 33-bed skilled nursing facility inside the hospital, and its careers page has listed nursing posts for that unit. Call (760) 264-4292 to reach administration and human resources.
Is unemployment high in Inyo County?
No. EDD's estimates average 4.5% for the twelve months from August 2025 to August 2026, which is below the 5.3% statewide figure for the same period.
Where do Inyo County families post care requests?
On the Inyo County family page or the Bishop page; both feed the postings shown above. Caregivers sign up and apply for free and keep their whole wage.
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