High paying personal care jobs in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single personal care job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$51,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,510 – $73,98060
2First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers$40,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,810 – $69,53040
3Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$37,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,810 – $71,690140
4Funeral Attendants$35,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,180 – $43,88040
5Recreation Workers$33,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,920 – $49,940220
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$32,580
No formal educational credential
$25,810 – $39,840120
7Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$29,700
Postsecondary nondegree award
$25,810 – $82,950170
8Childcare Workers$29,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,560 – $35,940250
9Animal Caretakers$28,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,040 – $44,330160

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

#	Occupation	MedianBlacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,470	$36,510 – $73,980	60
2	First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,470	$34,810 – $69,530	40
3	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,290	$25,810 – $71,690	140
4	Funeral AttendantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,650	$31,180 – $43,880	40
5	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,660	$28,920 – $49,940	220
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$32,580	$25,810 – $39,840	120
7	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$29,700	$25,810 – $82,950	170
8	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,090	$27,560 – $35,940	250
9	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,160	$27,040 – $44,330	160

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, 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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