High paying healthcare support jobs in Rapid City, SD with no experience

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Rapid City, SD 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 Rapid City, SD run 10.8% below the national average (2024), so a Rapid City, SD 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, Rapid City, SD · Employed

1Medical Transcriptionists$53,840
Postsecondary nondegree award
$43,480 – $60,99030
2Massage Therapists$52,970
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,720 – $54,23050
3Physical Therapist Assistants$50,010
Associate's degree
$38,170 – $63,05040
4Dental Assistants$47,850
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,970 – $59,030320
5Medical Equipment Preparers$45,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,300 – $58,83080
6Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$44,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,160 – $63,13060
7Medical Assistants$40,690
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,190 – $47,920240
8Phlebotomists$39,720
Postsecondary nondegree award
$29,430 – $45,09040
9Nursing Assistants$38,500
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,290 – $46,1001,280
10Home Health and Personal Care Aides$36,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,280 – $48,720570
11Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$35,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,670 – $36,86040

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

#	Occupation	MedianRapid City, SD	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Medical TranscriptionistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$53,840	$43,480 – $60,990	30
2	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$52,970	$35,720 – $54,230	50
3	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$50,010	$38,170 – $63,050	40
4	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$47,850	$37,970 – $59,030	320
5	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,460	$38,300 – $58,830	80
6	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,200	$39,160 – $63,130	60
7	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$40,690	$36,190 – $47,920	240
8	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,720	$29,430 – $45,090	40
9	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$38,500	$36,290 – $46,100	1,280
10	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,760	$33,280 – $48,720	570
11	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,640	$27,670 – $36,860	40

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