High paying healthcare support jobs in Johnson City, TN with no experience

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Johnson City, TN 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 Johnson City, TN run 12.1% below the national average (2024), so a Johnson City, TN salary is worth about 1.14× 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, Johnson City, TN · Employed

1Occupational Therapy Assistants$64,810
Associate's degree
$49,510 – $86,76040
2Physical Therapist Assistants$64,270
Associate's degree
$46,640 – $81,790100
3Massage Therapists$52,410
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,750 – $80,46040
4Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$51,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,860 – $64,54070
5Dental Assistants$45,540
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,840 – $59,900220
6Medical Equipment Preparers$45,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,980 – $58,48060
7Medical Transcriptionists$39,430
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,280 – $50,200100
8Medical Assistants$37,740
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,470 – $45,530760
9Nursing Assistants$37,310
Postsecondary nondegree award
$29,510 – $43,8301,390
10Phlebotomists$36,430
Postsecondary nondegree award
$32,470 – $46,400150
11Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$34,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,910 – $39,73090
12Home Health and Personal Care Aides$29,360
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,050 – $35,280930
13Physical Therapist Aides$20,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$18,720 – $37,98040

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

#	Occupation	MedianJohnson City, TN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$64,810	$49,510 – $86,760	40
2	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$64,270	$46,640 – $81,790	100
3	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$52,410	$37,750 – $80,460	40
4	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,060	$36,860 – $64,540	70
5	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,540	$35,840 – $59,900	220
6	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,470	$32,980 – $58,480	60
7	Medical TranscriptionistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,430	$37,280 – $50,200	100
8	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,740	$31,470 – $45,530	760
9	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,310	$29,510 – $43,830	1,390
10	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$36,430	$32,470 – $46,400	150
11	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,520	$28,910 – $39,730	90
12	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,360	$27,050 – $35,280	930
13	Physical Therapist AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$20,140	$18,720 – $37,980	40

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Johnson City, TN. 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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