High paying personal care jobs in Ithaca, NY

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Ithaca, NY. 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 Ithaca, NY run 3.3% above the national average (2024), so a Ithaca, NY salary is worth about 0.97× 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, Ithaca, NY · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers$61,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,720 – $79,81060
2Residential Advisors$53,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,320 – $64,69090
3Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$47,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,200 – $79,170150
4Childcare Workers$37,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,660 – $43,220290
5Animal Caretakers$36,930
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,120 – $45,440100
6Recreation Workers$34,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,300 – $50,660170

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

#	Occupation	MedianIthaca, NY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,140	$42,720 – $79,810	60
2	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$53,760	$36,320 – $64,690	90
3	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,670	$34,200 – $79,170	150
4	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,410	$33,660 – $43,220	290
5	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,930	$33,120 – $45,440	100
6	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,770	$34,300 – $50,660	170

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