High paying personal care jobs in Wausau, WI

Every personal care occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Wausau, WI. 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 Wausau, WI run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Wausau, WI salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Wausau, WI · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers$44,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,620 – $70,48080
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$44,120
High school diploma or equivalent
$24,640 – $57,360180
3Recreation Workers$38,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $49,76080
4Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$34,050
Postsecondary nondegree award
$25,510 – $61,990120
5Animal Caretakers$30,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$22,990 – $58,54070
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$30,420
No formal educational credential
$19,050 – $53,640100
7Childcare Workers$30,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$22,670 – $35,530130

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

#	Occupation	MedianWausau, WI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,520	$32,620 – $70,480	80
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,120	$24,640 – $57,360	180
3	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,030	$28,600 – $49,760	80
4	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$34,050	$25,510 – $61,990	120
5	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,430	$22,990 – $58,540	70
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$30,420	$19,050 – $53,640	100
7	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,210	$22,670 – $35,530	130

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