High paying personal care jobs in Harrisonburg, VA

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Harrisonburg, 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 Harrisonburg, VA run 5.1% below the national average (2024), so a Harrisonburg, VA salary is worth about 1.05× 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, Harrisonburg, VA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers$49,300
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,650 – $83,89040
2First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$47,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,860 – $71,56050
3Manicurists and Pedicurists$36,770
Postsecondary nondegree award
$28,870 – $59,37070
4Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$35,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,810 – $63,880120
5Residential Advisors$34,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,510 – $49,38090
6Animal Caretakers$31,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,630 – $46,070140
7Childcare Workers$29,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,150 – $37,880170
8Amusement and Recreation Attendants$28,760
No formal educational credential
$26,300 – $45,840140
9Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$27,730
Postsecondary nondegree award
$25,810 – $48,080110

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

#	Occupation	MedianHarrisonburg, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,300	$35,650 – $83,890	40
2	First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,570	$34,860 – $71,560	50
3	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$36,770	$28,870 – $59,370	70
4	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,020	$25,810 – $63,880	120
5	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,700	$33,510 – $49,380	90
6	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,980	$27,630 – $46,070	140
7	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,710	$28,150 – $37,880	170
8	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$28,760	$26,300 – $45,840	140
9	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$27,730	$25,810 – $48,080	110

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