High paying personal care jobs in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, 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 Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA run 8.9% below the national average (2024), so a Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA salary is worth about 1.10× 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, Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA · Employed

1Residential Advisors$47,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,450 – $57,55040
2First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$44,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,990 – $75,20030
3Recreation Workers$32,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,720 – $48,640100
4Childcare Workers$30,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,810 – $37,680140
5Tour and Travel Guides$30,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,040 – $44,00040
6Animal Caretakers$28,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,260 – $43,280120
7Amusement and Recreation Attendants$27,400
No formal educational credential
$25,810 – $34,78050

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

#	Occupation	MedianStaunton-Stuarts Draft, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,250	$35,450 – $57,550	40
2	First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,290	$36,990 – $75,200	30
3	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,150	$28,720 – $48,640	100
4	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,780	$25,810 – $37,680	140
5	Tour and Travel GuidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,610	$27,040 – $44,000	40
6	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,940	$27,260 – $43,280	120
7	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$27,400	$25,810 – $34,780	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, 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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