High paying personal care jobs in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL. 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 Cape Girardeau, MO-IL run 13.9% below the national average (2024), so a Cape Girardeau, MO-IL salary is worth about 1.16× 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, Cape Girardeau, MO-IL · Employed

1Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$37,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,010 – $51,63070
2Recreation Workers$30,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $42,870100
3Animal Caretakers$29,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $37,440120
4Childcare Workers$29,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $37,120140
5Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$28,800
Postsecondary nondegree award
$28,600 – $58,890100
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$28,600
No formal educational credential
$28,600 – $33,710110
7Residential Advisors$28,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $40,98040

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

#	Occupation	MedianCape Girardeau, MO-IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,450	$29,010 – $51,630	70
2	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,910	$28,600 – $42,870	100
3	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,890	$28,600 – $37,440	120
4	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,210	$28,600 – $37,120	140
5	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$28,800	$28,600 – $58,890	100
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$28,600	$28,600 – $33,710	110
7	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,600	$28,600 – $40,980	40

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL. 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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