High paying personal care jobs in Decatur, IL

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Decatur, 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 Decatur, IL run 11.6% below the national average (2024), so a Decatur, IL salary is worth about 1.13× 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, Decatur, IL · Employed

1Childcare Workers$34,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $39,570100
2Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$32,620
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $53,84070
3Animal Caretakers$31,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $39,360100
4Recreation Workers$31,590
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $45,90070
5Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$31,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $48,470110
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $31,20090

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

#	Occupation	MedianDecatur, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,740	$31,200 – $39,570	100
2	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$32,620	$31,200 – $53,840	70
3	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,670	$31,200 – $39,360	100
4	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,590	$31,200 – $45,900	70
5	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,200	$31,200 – $48,470	110
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $31,200	90

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