High paying personal care jobs in Bangor, ME with no degree

The best paid personal care occupations in Bangor, ME that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Bangor, ME run 3.5% below the national average (2024), so a Bangor, ME salary is worth about 1.04× 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, Bangor, ME · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers$47,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,100 – $61,52060
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$45,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,920 – $73,650100
3Residential Advisors$43,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,580 – $64,480110
4Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other$38,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,380 – $48,10050
5Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$37,050
Postsecondary nondegree award
$30,470 – $59,93080
6Animal Caretakers$35,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,790 – $46,060180
7Childcare Workers$34,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,630 – $45,150490
8Recreation Workers$33,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,470 – $53,780150
9Amusement and Recreation Attendants$32,900
No formal educational credential
$30,470 – $41,210150
10Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers$30,470
No formal educational credential
$30,470 – $44,78090

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

#	Occupation	MedianBangor, ME	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,410	$39,100 – $61,520	60
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,540	$35,920 – $73,650	100
3	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,150	$38,580 – $64,480	110
4	Personal Care and Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,200	$33,380 – $48,100	50
5	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$37,050	$30,470 – $59,930	80
6	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,610	$30,790 – $46,060	180
7	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,820	$30,630 – $45,150	490
8	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,790	$30,470 – $53,780	150
9	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$32,900	$30,470 – $41,210	150
10	Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket TakersNo formal educational credential	$30,470	$30,470 – $44,780	90

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