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

The best paid healthcare support occupations in Roanoke, 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 Roanoke, VA run 6.4% below the national average (2024), so a Roanoke, VA 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, Roanoke, VA · Employed

1Occupational Therapy Assistants$72,870
Associate's degree
$54,990 – $87,81060
2Physical Therapist Assistants$67,140
Associate's degree
$49,010 – $81,350130
3Massage Therapists$63,070
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,700 – $101,87060
4Phlebotomists$46,380
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,730 – $47,340190
5Healthcare Support Workers, All Other$46,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,490 – $67,500110
6Dental Assistants$45,170
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,120 – $56,060300
7Nursing Assistants$38,960
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,280 – $46,3702,430
8Medical Assistants$37,780
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,930 – $44,530670
9Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$35,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,050 – $43,870200
10Home Health and Personal Care Aides$27,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,260 – $35,9702,190

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

#	Occupation	MedianRoanoke, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Occupational Therapy AssistantsAssociate's degree	$72,870	$54,990 – $87,810	60
2	Physical Therapist AssistantsAssociate's degree	$67,140	$49,010 – $81,350	130
3	Massage TherapistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$63,070	$35,700 – $101,870	60
4	PhlebotomistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$46,380	$37,730 – $47,340	190
5	Healthcare Support Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,020	$36,490 – $67,500	110
6	Dental AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,170	$36,120 – $56,060	300
7	Nursing AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$38,960	$35,280 – $46,370	2,430
8	Medical AssistantsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,780	$35,930 – $44,530	670
9	Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,410	$30,050 – $43,870	200
10	Home Health and Personal Care AidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$27,540	$26,260 – $35,970	2,190

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