High paying healthcare support jobs in Richmond, VA with no experience

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Richmond, VA 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 Richmond, VA run 2.1% below the national average (2024), so a Richmond, VA salary is worth about 1.02× 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, Richmond, VA · Employed

1Occupational Therapy Assistants$76,760
Associate's degree
$50,000 – $93,430210
2Physical Therapist Assistants$73,640
Associate's degree
$54,850 – $83,090560
3Massage Therapists$57,730
Postsecondary nondegree award
$39,720 – $98,910490
4Dental Assistants$47,760
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,820 – $57,6701,610
5Medical Equipment Preparers$46,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,820 – $58,180300
6Phlebotomists$46,370
Postsecondary nondegree award
$38,300 – $57,100640
7Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$46,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,110 – $63,070440
8Medical Assistants$44,490
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,810 – $46,9403,210
9Nursing Assistants$42,720
Postsecondary nondegree award
$33,910 – $48,3906,660
10Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$37,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,060 – $46,780820
11Physical Therapist Aides$33,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,170 – $39,510250
12Home Health and Personal Care Aides$29,360
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,630 – $38,42011,570

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

#	Occupation	MedianRichmond, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$76,760	$50,000 – $93,430	210
2	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$73,640	$54,850 – $83,090	560
3	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$57,730	$39,720 – $98,910	490
4	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$47,760	$37,820 – $57,670	1,610
5	Medical Equipment PreparersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,640	$34,820 – $58,180	300
6	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$46,370	$38,300 – $57,100	640
7	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,020	$34,110 – $63,070	440
8	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$44,490	$37,810 – $46,940	3,210
9	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$42,720	$33,910 – $48,390	6,660
10	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,470	$30,060 – $46,780	820
11	Physical Therapist AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,860	$26,170 – $39,510	250
12	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,360	$27,630 – $38,420	11,570

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