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Utica, New York

Evelyn's House Residence Counselor

CounselorPart-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

The Part Time Residence Counselor works a variable part-time schedule, to be paid per hour, providing direct services for residents of Evelyn’s House by performing the following duties and responsibilities:

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Monitor the residents’ activity to make sure that mothers and children are safe in the home.
  • Provide the mothers with guidance related to household chores and caring for their children.
  • Answer telephones and open the outside doors for residents returning home.
  • Document specific observations of residents:
  • leaving and returning to the house, including compliance with curfews
  • completion of household chores
  • properly caring for their children
  • administering  prescribed medication for themselves or their children
  • complying with all house rules described in “Residents Policies and Procedures”
  • Attend agency trainings, meetings and activities as directed.
  • Communicate regularly with the Program Manager and the Service Coordinator for supervision.

Education/Experience

  • Experience working with young mothers and young children.
  • Valid Driver’s License is required for position.

Key Responsibilities

The Residence Counselor monitors the safety of mothers and children while providing guidance on household chores and childcare. They are also responsible for documenting resident compliance with house rules and administering prescribed medications.

Requirements

Candidates must have experience working with young mothers and children. A valid driver's license is required for the position.

Key Skills

Resident MonitoringChild CareGuidance and MentoringDocumentationMedication AdministrationCommunicationCrisis Intervention

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Evelyn's House Residence Counselor at ICAN a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Counseling — ranked against 579 active Counseling listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 42 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 43% are remote, 26% have no call, 88% require no weekends.

Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$42k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $39k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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CME allowance
69%
401k / retirement match
51%
Loan repayment
17%
Sign-on bonus
14%
PSLF eligible
9%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 579 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site

Living in Utica

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$216k
Typical market rent
$1,404/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.7
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Utica-Rome, NY metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.