High paying healthcare support jobs in Abilene, TX with no experience

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Abilene, TX that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Abilene, TX run 9.6% below the national average (2024), so a Abilene, TX salary is worth about 1.11× 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, Abilene, TX · Employed

1Physical Therapist Assistants$76,090
Associate's degree
$38,920 – $95,65060
2Massage Therapists$68,730
Postsecondary nondegree award
$54,700 – $101,73060
3Physical Therapist Aides$49,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,890 – $49,79070
4Dental Assistants$39,510
Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,680 – $48,690170
5Medical Assistants$37,550
Postsecondary nondegree award
$30,610 – $44,830350
6Nursing Assistants$37,460
Postsecondary nondegree award
$28,870 – $43,050800
7Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$36,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,870 – $49,92070
8Phlebotomists$36,100
Postsecondary nondegree award
$28,560 – $44,53050
9Medical Transcriptionists$30,940
Postsecondary nondegree award
$30,940 – $45,99040
10Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$29,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$23,300 – $45,42060
11Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$21,860 – $31,1601,820

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

#	Occupation	MedianAbilene, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$76,090	$38,920 – $95,650	60
2	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$68,730	$54,700 – $101,730	60
3	Physical Therapist AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,790	$25,890 – $49,790	70
4	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,510	$34,680 – $48,690	170
5	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,550	$30,610 – $44,830	350
6	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,460	$28,870 – $43,050	800
7	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,870	$29,870 – $49,920	70
8	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$36,100	$28,560 – $44,530	50
9	Medical TranscriptionistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$30,940	$30,940 – $45,990	40
10	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,710	$23,300 – $45,420	60
11	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$23,690	$21,860 – $31,160	1,820

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