CNA is basically a Certified Nursing Assistant; it is a medical field job, which carries lots of small but decisive responsibilities. Often CNA or a Certified Nursing Assistant works under registered nurse or licensed practical nurse. Basic responsibility of nursing assistants is to help their senior nurses or doctors. Though the particular duties of a certified nursing assistant depends on the organization or hospital where the person is working. The common works are- to attend particular patient personally and to help them with eating, bathing, changing clothes, hygiene precautions and grooming. Sometimes CNAs also serve meals and adjust bed for the patients. They also monitor patient's health signs as blood pressure, pulses rates and temperatures, which are basic essential objects of the treatment.

How much does a CNA make mainly depends on various factors such as- graphic location and payment status of working place, certified nursing assistant's work experience, small or metro city or state, education or training level and many more.

How much does a CNA make in United States- Certified nursing assistant can earn a very good salary in all over the world because it is a very crucial job or responsibility in medical field. Most of the hospitals or medical care centers are awash with many patients in every state or country that is why requirement of medical workers has been improved and still rising. This a key cause of high expenditure of CNA especially in U.S., salary is around $20,000 to $30,000 approximately and the hourly earnings are around $9.31 to $12.25 where median pay is $11 per hour (figures may vary in certain circumstances). This statistics is for usual duty hours but CNA can make more by overtime, $12.56 to $18.05 is rate of hourly pay for overtime in U.S.

Certified nursing assistant is a kind of job in which not only the pay skills are good but also additional earning benefits are quite better such as- bonus can be around $25.63 to $410 per year, commission can be around $20.35 to $1,017 and profit sharing can be between $96.52 and $1,459 per year.

How much does a CNA make in United States also depends on the working experience of certified nursing assistants. The salary packages as per the experience level as discussed as follows- for less than one-year experience, the earning is of $8.65 to $10.89 on per hour basis. A person having experience of one year to four years can make around $9.06 to $11.52 and in range of experience between 5 to 9 years can make $9.73 to $12.56 per hour.

Above figures are general analyzes about the salary ranges of CNA in United States, but how much does a CNA make also depends on states of U.S., where the person is actually working, because all states have their own laws about the payment skills. For e.g. in Pennsylvania, hourly payment is high in comparison to other states in U.S., certified nursing assistant can earn almost $11.64 there while in California the rate of per hour work is around $11.58 for CNA. Florida hospitals or medical care centers pay CNA at the rate of $10.75 while Illinois hospitals or organizations pay at the rate of $10.45 per hour. In Texas, the CNA per hour pay is near about to $9.84 while in North Carolina hourly pay for CNA is $9.73. Thus, how much does a CNA make is highly dependent on the location.