High paying healthcare support jobs in St. Louis, MO-IL

Every healthcare support occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in St. Louis, MO-IL. 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 St. Louis, MO-IL run 4.9% below the national average (2024), so a St. Louis, MO-IL salary is worth about 1.05× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

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

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OccupationMedian, St. Louis, MO-IL · Employed

1Occupational Therapy Assistants$67,450
Associate's degree
$50,990 – $84,100780
2Physical Therapist Assistants$65,820
Associate's degree
$53,070 – $79,4001,100
3Massage Therapists$59,020
Postsecondary nondegree award
$43,680 – $96,3101,010
4Dental Assistants$48,120
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,780 – $60,5302,990
5Medical Equipment Preparers$45,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,240 – $60,400890
6Phlebotomists$45,750
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,890 – $49,730670
7Medical Assistants$44,710
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,670 – $48,6206,170
8Nursing Assistants$39,110
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,300 – $46,89014,620
9Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$37,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,820 – $47,890970
10Orderlies$35,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,770 – $41,290440
11Home Health and Personal Care Aides$34,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $42,72044,200
12Physical Therapist Aides$29,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $39,140480

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

#	Occupation	MedianSt. Louis, MO-IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$67,450	$50,990 – $84,100	780
2	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$65,820	$53,070 – $79,400	1,100
3	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$59,020	$43,680 – $96,310	1,010
4	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$48,120	$37,780 – $60,530	2,990
5	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,880	$37,240 – $60,400	890
6	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,750	$35,890 – $49,730	670
7	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$44,710	$36,670 – $48,620	6,170
8	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,110	$35,300 – $46,890	14,620
9	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,790	$31,820 – $47,890	970
10	OrderliesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,620	$31,770 – $41,290	440
11	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,490	$28,600 – $42,720	44,200
12	Physical Therapist AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,250	$28,600 – $39,140	480

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in St. Louis, MO-IL. 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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