09/02/2026
Pay is rarely the only reason a PSW leaves.
When facilities try to fix turnover, the first move is almost always the wage. It helps. It does not solve it, because most of what pushes PSWs out is not on the pay stub.
It is shifts that are too short and too scattered to add up to full time hours. Travel time between clients that nobody counts as work. Schedules that change often enough to make childcare or a second job impossible. And working short so consistently that the care they trained to give properly gets rushed every day.
That last one matters more than employers think. People who chose this work chose it for a reason, and being unable to do it well is its own kind of exit interview.
The good news is that most of these are scheduling problems, and scheduling problems are fixable. The ones that are not fixable internally are usually a coverage gap, which is where we come in.
