co-op.care is hiring its first companion caregivers — and they don’t just get a job. They become member-owners of the cooperative that sends them. The people who do the care own it.
$26/hr, W-2 · a real vote · flexible hours · no experience required.
Home care usually means low pay, no say, and being sent in alone. A cooperative is built the other way around.
You’re an employee with a proper paycheck and withholding — not a 1099 contractor absorbing every cost. Companion hours in Boulder County today.
Caregivers hold their own class of patron shares in co-op.care. You get a real vote in how the cooperative runs — the same one vote every member holds, no matter what anyone paid.
A licensed physician stands behind the clinical side of care. And the family’s context — who they are, what matters to them — is carried for you, so every visit starts warm instead of cold.
A few hours a week or full-time, close to home. Care built around walkable neighborhoods means less driving and more time with the person you’re there for.
The best caregivers rarely come from where you’d expect. Three groups we’re especially hoping to hear from:
Headed for medicine, nursing, PT, psychology, or social work? This is real time with real people, flexible around class — the experience that actually teaches you care, at good pay.
Work that fits around school days and family life, close to home, that pays a real wage and means something. A few hours a week to full-time.
If you’ve cared for your own parent or partner, you already know how to do this. Here that hard-won experience is valued, paid, and no longer done alone.
Straightforward, and honest about the steps that protect the families you’ll serve.
A few minutes — who you are, where in Boulder County you are, when you’re free, and why care matters to you. No resume required.
We talk, run the standard background check that caring for vulnerable people requires, and walk you through the basics. Ownership is explained in plain language before you sign anything.
You’re matched to families near you, paid a real W-2 wage, and welcomed as a member-owner with a vote in the cooperative.
We’re building the founding group of caregivers in Boulder County. Tell us a little about you and we’ll be in touch about next steps.
Nothing here is a commitment. It starts a conversation.
We read every application ourselves. We’ll be in touch about meeting and next steps. Welcome to the start of something worth owning.
co-op.care is a cooperative — a company owned by its members instead of outside investors. Caregivers are one class of member. You earn your wage as an employee, and you also hold a patron share with one vote in how the cooperative is run. It’s the difference between working for a company and being part of one.
$26 an hour, W-2, for companion care in Boulder County. That’s a genuine wage with proper withholding, not gig-app pay after you subtract your own costs. As the cooperative grows and runs a surplus, members can share in it — but no return is promised, and your wage never depends on it.
No. Reliability, warmth, and good judgment matter more than a credential, and we’ll teach you the rest. If you’ve cared for your own family, you’re already qualified in the way that counts most.
Not today — and we’d rather say so plainly than dangle something we can’t yet deliver. Affordable housing for caregiver-owners is something the cooperative wants to build toward, but it isn’t part of the offer right now. What’s real today is the wage, the ownership, and the flexibility.
Companion care — being present with an older adult so they can live well at home. Conversation, meals, light help around the house, errands, a steady hand and a familiar face. It is not medical or nursing work; a licensed physician handles anything clinical.
Boulder County, Colorado, today — and growing by neighborhood. If you’re nearby, apply anyway; where we expand next follows where our caregivers and families are.