Workers’ comp insurance cost for home-health agencies in Georgia

Published 2026-06-11 · by Brokly

Direct answer: Georgia home-health agencies pay a filed workers’-comp manual rate of $2.27 per $100 of payroll (2024 filed rate) — the 14th-highest of 51 US jurisdictions. Modeled on real payrolls, most <5-employee home-health agencies land around $1.4k–$5.6k/yr, before experience mods and schedule credits.

What do Georgia home-health agencies pay for workers’ comp?

Modeled annual premium across the real size distribution of GA home-health agencies

bar height = how many home-health agencies are that size · figures = modeled annual cost

typical · most GA home-health agencies
<5 emp
$1.8k/yr
5–9 emp
$5.1k/yr
10–19 emp
$15k/yr
20–49 emp
$31k/yr
50–99 emp
$51k/yr
100–249 emp
$110k/yr
SMALLER
MID-SIZE
LARGER
A <5-employee GA home-health agency: modeled $1.4k–$5.6k/yr in workers’-comp premium (that band’s own average wage, before experience mods and schedule credits). Bar heights show how many of the 1,554 GA home-health agencies fall in each size band.

Cohort: size distribution of 1,554 GA home-health agencies (Census CBP 2023); premiums modeled from one filed rate ($2.27/$100 payroll, 2024). Bands shown cover 1,545 of 1,554 establishments (99.4%) 9 establishments in larger, very small-count, or data-suppressed size bands are not shown. 2023 payroll dollars, not inflation-adjusted. Illustrative benchmark — not a quote or coverage recommendation.

Filed manual rate (GA)
$2.27 / $100 payroll
as of 2024
Typical <5-employee home-health agency (40% of GA)
$1.4k–$5.6k / yr modeled
as of 2024 · CBP 2023

Sources: Oregon DCBS workers' compensation premium rate ranking study, June 2025 (calendar-year 2024 rates) (as of calendar year 2024, retrieved 2026-06-04) · US Census County Business Patterns 2023, state file (Home health care services (NAICS 621610)) (as of 2023, retrieved 2026-06-05)

How does Georgia compare to nearby ranks?

Calculated manual rates, $ per $100 payroll, NCCI class 8835 (Home Healthcare), 2024. See all 51 jurisdictions →

RankStateRate / $100 payroll
10Montana$2.42
11Missouri$2.38
12New Hampshire$2.36
13Idaho$2.27
14Georgia$2.27
15Alabama$2.18
16Connecticut$2.10
17Pennsylvania$2.07
18Washington$2.06

Sources: Oregon DCBS workers' compensation premium rate ranking study, June 2025 (calendar-year 2024 rates) (as of calendar year 2024, retrieved 2026-06-04)

Frequently asked questions

What does workers' comp cost home-health agencies in Georgia?

Modeled from the 2024 filed manual rate of $2.27 per $100 of payroll: a <5-employee home-health agency lands around $1.4k–$5.6k per year before experience mods and schedule credits.

What drives the rate up or down?

Three levers: payroll (the exposure base), claims history (the experience modifier), and schedule credits/debits the insurer applies. Home-health work is NCCI class 8835 (Home Healthcare) — nurses, aides, and other staff delivering care in patients' homes; office-based healthcare classes like 8832 (Physician & Clerical) are rated separately.

Home-health agencies in nearby-ranked states: Connecticut ($2.10) · Pennsylvania ($2.07) · Michigan ($1.98) · Oklahoma ($2.53)

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Illustrative benchmark — not a quote or coverage recommendation. Figures are modeled from public filings and Census data for 1,554 Georgia home-health agencies; your premium depends on your payroll, claims history, and carrier.