High paying healthcare support jobs in Akron, OH with no experience

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Akron, OH 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 Akron, OH run 6.6% below the national average (2024), so a Akron, OH salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Akron, OH · Employed

1Physical Therapist Assistants$63,050
Associate's degree
$50,350 – $80,680450
2Occupational Therapy Assistants$62,380
Associate's degree
$48,470 – $80,820280
3Dental Assistants$48,230
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,970 – $70,720740
4Massage Therapists$47,990
Postsecondary nondegree award
$44,330 – $73,470190
5Medical Equipment Preparers$45,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,960 – $57,980190
6Medical Assistants$42,830
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,090 – $47,6501,880
7Phlebotomists$40,690
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,210 – $47,830190
8Nursing Assistants$39,250
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,540 – $45,7003,170
9Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$36,400
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,510 – $45,120300
10Orderlies$36,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,960 – $38,060110
11Home Health and Personal Care Aides$34,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,840 – $38,8006,310
12Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$22,260
High school diploma or equivalent
$22,260 – $48,750110

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

#	Occupation	MedianAkron, OH	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$63,050	$50,350 – $80,680	450
2	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$62,380	$48,470 – $80,820	280
3	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$48,230	$37,970 – $70,720	740
4	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$47,990	$44,330 – $73,470	190
5	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,540	$35,960 – $57,980	190
6	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$42,830	$37,090 – $47,650	1,880
7	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$40,690	$37,210 – $47,830	190
8	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,250	$36,540 – $45,700	3,170
9	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,400	$30,510 – $45,120	300
10	OrderliesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,250	$34,960 – $38,060	110
11	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,310	$27,840 – $38,800	6,310
12	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$22,260	$22,260 – $48,750	110

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