High paying healthcare support jobs in North Dakota

Every healthcare support occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in North Dakota. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single healthcare support job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in North Dakota run 11.0% below the national average (2024), so a North Dakota salary is worth about 1.12× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order. To see where a job pays a real premium, use jobs that pay more in North Dakota.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, North Dakota · Employed

1Dental Assistants$57,770
Postsecondary nondegree award
$43,680 – $72,710860
2Phlebotomists$47,430
Postsecondary nondegree award
$33,840 – $58,290220
3Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$47,010
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,500 – $68,600280
4Medical Assistants$45,980
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,650 – $58,230600
5Nursing Assistants$45,820
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,130 – $51,3806,840
6Home Health and Personal Care Aides$39,440
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,220 – $49,1907,730
7Medical Equipment Preparers$38,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,600 – $61,440350
8Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$37,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,800 – $46,830270

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianNorth Dakota	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$57,770	$43,680 – $72,710	860
2	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$47,430	$33,840 – $58,290	220
3	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,010	$34,500 – $68,600	280
4	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,980	$37,650 – $58,230	600
5	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,820	$35,130 – $51,380	6,840
6	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,440	$36,220 – $49,190	7,730
7	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,910	$37,600 – $61,440	350
8	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,160	$33,800 – $46,830	270

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in North Dakota. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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Pay varies more between metros than between states — the spread inside one state is often wider than the gap between two.

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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in North Dakota to rank honestly.

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