Caregiver Jobs in Siskiyou County
This page covers all of Siskiyou County, from Yreka and Weed on Interstate 5 to Scott Valley, Butte Valley, Tulelake and the Klamath River communities. Requests posted from any Siskiyou County address appear above as families publish them.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Siskiyou County
Siskiyou County is large and thinly settled. The Area Agency on Aging that serves it puts the county at 6,347 square miles with roughly 7 people per square mile, and the Department of Finance counted 43,153 residents on January 1, 2026. The College of the Siskiyous lists city or town halls in Dorris, Dunsmuir, Etna, Fort Jones, Montague, Mount Shasta, Tulelake, Weed and Yreka, and notes that the largest towns sit along Interstate 5. Away from that corridor, some clients live where the county bus calls only twice a week.
That shapes how you look for work. Expect to drive: ACS 2020–2024 finds 72.4% of employed residents driving to work by themselves and 0.5% riding transit. List every community you can reach on a normal day, and say whether you can drive a client to the county's two hospitals, Fairchild in Yreka and Mercy in Mount Shasta. Residents 65 and older are 27.8% of the county in the same survey, against 15.7% statewide, and many of them want to keep living in their own homes for as long as they can.
Families looking for private caregivers in Siskiyou County
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Caregiver jobs by city and town
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- Caregiver jobs in Weedpop. 2,693
- Caregiver jobs in Yrekapop. 7,709
The communities of Siskiyou County
The county's main settlements. Yreka and Weed each have a page of their own; search other communities by ZIP.
- YrekaA city of 7,709 with Fairchild Medical Center, the county IHSS office, the STAGE transit center and the college's nursing programs.
- Weed and Lake ShastinaWeed (2,693 residents) has the college's 250-acre home campus and Shasta Healthcare, the one nursing home in the county's state listing; Lake Shastina has its own community services district.
- Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir and McCloudGreat Northern Services calls these, with Weed, the four South County communities it delivers senior meals to. Mercy Medical Center is in Mount Shasta.
- Scott Valley (Etna and Fort Jones)Served by STAGE Routes 4 and 5 to Yreka. Fairchild runs the Scott Valley Rural Health Clinic in Etna.
- Montague, Grenada and HornbrookStops on STAGE routes into Yreka. Madrone delivers senior meals to Montague and Grenada once a week.
- Butte Valley and TulelakeDorris and Tulelake each have a primary care clinic in the state list, and Klamath Hospice is based in Dorris.
- Klamath River communitiesHappy Camp, Seiad Valley and Hamburg are on STAGE Route 6, which runs only on Mondays and Thursdays.
Types of caregiver jobs in Siskiyou County
The county's IHSS page lists what the program pays for: personal care such as bathing and dressing, paramedical tasks under a licensed professional's direction, housework, cooking, shopping, laundry and rides to medical appointments. It will not pay for companionship, pet care, gardening or waiting at the doctor's office, and that gap is often what private families hire for. Without experience, start with meals, errands and company.
- 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 Siskiyou County: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Siskiyou and nine 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, North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Siskiyou and nine other counties) | $16.50 median ($17.00 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 5,000 jobs; concentration 1.73× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Siskiyou County | $16.90 | CDSS; effective September 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Siskiyou and nine other counties) | $22.66 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 publishes no separate wage table for Siskiyou County. It pools Siskiyou with Trinity, Tehama, Sierra, Plumas, Nevada, Modoc, Lassen, Glenn and Colusa. The May 2025 survey counted 5,000 aides across those ten counties, paid a $16.50 median ($17.00 mean), while nursing assistants earned a $22.66 median. The CDSS table lists Siskiyou County's IHSS provider wage as $16.90 from September 1, 2026, which is exactly California's minimum wage and the lowest of the 58 county rates in that table. No Siskiyou city or county ordinance appears in UC Berkeley's minimum wage inventory, so private jobs start at that same $16.90; overtime starts once a day passes nine hours or a week passes 45.
About 7.6% of Siskiyou County's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. Over the same months the statewide figure was 5.3%, Weed's 11.4% and Yreka's 7.3%. Care work does not stop when other jobs slow down, which is why steady hours through IHSS in Siskiyou County matter in a county this size. Because the IHSS wage sits at the minimum, a CNA certificate is the clearest route to higher pay.
How to enroll as a provider in Siskiyou County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County
California issues no license for private, non-medical home care, so a Siskiyou family can hire you as you are; only licensed agencies must put their aides on the Home Care Aide Registry. Siskiyou County Adult Services runs IHSS from 750 South Main Street, Yreka, (530) 841-4010. Provider enrollment goes through the IHSS Public Authority, by appointment at 1107 Ream Avenue in Mt. Shasta or 818 South Main Street in Yreka: the SOC 426, 426C and 847 forms, a Live Scan you pay for, then orientation once the Justice Department result is back. Facility jobs need a CDPH nurse assistant certificate, and every care provider is a mandated reporter of elder abuse. See California caregiver requirements.
Training and career resources near Siskiyou County
Where Siskiyou County caregivers train, enroll and catch the bus; details confirmed with each organization this October.
- College of the Siskiyous, Certified Nurse Assistant courseTaught in Yreka, in the college's Rural Health Sciences Institute building at 2001 Campus Drive. The six-unit course leads to the state certification exam; the next class starts January 26, 2027, and the college estimates the total cost at $1,002. You need a BLS CPR card and immunization records. Register through Counseling, (530) 938-5353.
- Siskiyou County Public Authority for IHSSMaintains the county's registry of screened IHSS providers and acts as their legal employer when wages and benefits are negotiated. Desk (530) 841-2711. Its page links state videos on entering time in the Electronic Services Portal.
- Passages Caregiver Resource CenterOperating out of CSU Chico, Passages lists Siskiyou among the ten counties it serves, with caregiving classes and monthly support groups. Redding office (530) 221-1900; main line (530) 898-5925.
- STAGE, Siskiyou Transit and General ExpressSix weekday routes, no weekend or holiday service, and a $1 fare while grant funds last. The Cascade Flyer runs Yreka to Dunsmuir three times a day. (530) 842-8220.
Siskiyou County in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 counts 12,101 residents aged 65 and over, 27.8% of the county, and 1,183 are 85 or older. The county's median age is a high 47.2. Some 45.0% of the county's households have a member aged 65-plus, and 16.8% consist of one person that age living alone. Disability is reported by 32.1% of those 65 and older. The typical household earns $59,095, and 7.7% of people report American Indian or Alaska Native heritage, by itself or combined with another race.
Two general hospitals appear in the state's facility list for September 16, 2026, both with critical access status: Fairchild Medical Center in Yreka (28 beds) and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta (33 beds). The county's one skilled nursing facility is Shasta Healthcare in Weed (59 beds). The file shows three hospices and no home health agency with a Siskiyou County address, which leaves most hands-on help at home to relatives, IHSS workers and privately paid helpers. For local detail see the Yreka and Weed pages; to the south, the Shasta County page covers Redding.
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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, North Valley-Northern Mountains 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
- Siskiyou County, In-Home Supportive Services
- Siskiyou County, Adult and Children Services contact information
- Siskiyou County, IHSS Public Authority and Packet A instructions
- College of the Siskiyous, Certified Nurse Assistant program, cost sheet and spring 2027 flyer
- College of the Siskiyous, Weed and Yreka campuses and local area
- PSA 2 Area Agency on Aging, Siskiyou County profile and 2026-2027 service provider listing
- Passages Caregiver Resource Center, counties served
- Great Northern Services, Siskiyou Senior Nutrition
- STAGE, routes, schedules and fares
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 16, 2026)
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Siskiyou County
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profile DP05, California
Caregiver jobs in Siskiyou County: frequently asked questions
What does IHSS pay in Siskiyou County?
Since September 1, 2026, the CDSS table has listed Siskiyou at $16.90 an hour, no more than the state minimum. Pay is set by the county the recipient lives in; a client living in Shasta County would be paid at the Shasta figure.
How does IHSS provider enrollment work in Siskiyou County?
Get Packet A from the Public Authority, complete every page, get fingerprinted at a Live Scan site at your own cost, and return the forms in person or by mail to the Mt. Shasta or Yreka office. Arrive on time for orientation: more than ten minutes late and you must rebook.
Who do I call about IHSS paychecks here?
Packet A gives the state IHSS Help Desk, 866-376-7066, and county IHSS payroll processing, 530-841-4200.
Is there a nurse assistant course in Siskiyou County?
Yes, at College of the Siskiyous in Yreka. The spring class begins January 26, 2027, and the college puts the full estimated cost, with books, tools and other items, at $1,002. The course flyer says certification testing currently takes place in Redding.
Can I get to clients by bus?
Sometimes. STAGE runs weekdays only, every fare is $1 for now, and routes link Yreka with Weed, Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, McCloud, Scott Valley, Montague and Happy Camp. Gaps between buses are long, so plan on a car.
Where do Siskiyou County families post?
On the Siskiyou County family page or the Yreka and Weed pages. Their posts feed the openings shown at the top of this page; signing up and applying cost nothing, and your wages stay yours.
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