High paying healthcare support jobs in Wichita, KS

Every healthcare support occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Wichita, KS. 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 Wichita, KS run 11.1% below the national average (2024), so a Wichita, KS 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.

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, Wichita, KS · Employed

1Occupational Therapy Assistants$64,250
Associate's degree
$53,490 – $76,780180
2Physical Therapist Assistants$62,900
Associate's degree
$52,150 – $77,170230
3Massage Therapists$46,560
Postsecondary nondegree award
$26,060 – $73,820200
4Medical Assistants$38,630
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,920 – $45,7101,190
5Phlebotomists$38,350
Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,550 – $46,580230
6Medical Equipment Preparers$37,930
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,260 – $50,260150
7Nursing Assistants$37,290
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,840 – $44,9305,220
8Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$34,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,170 – $46,210290
9Home Health and Personal Care Aides$30,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,470 – $36,1905,850
10Pharmacy Aides$30,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$22,560 – $37,110100

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

#	Occupation	MedianWichita, KS	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$64,250	$53,490 – $76,780	180
2	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$62,900	$52,150 – $77,170	230
3	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$46,560	$26,060 – $73,820	200
4	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$38,630	$35,920 – $45,710	1,190
5	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$38,350	$34,550 – $46,580	230
6	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,930	$33,260 – $50,260	150
7	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,290	$31,840 – $44,930	5,220
8	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,650	$28,170 – $46,210	290
9	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,600	$27,470 – $36,190	5,850
10	Pharmacy AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,070	$22,560 – $37,110	100

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Wichita, KS. 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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