High paying personal care jobs in Bloomington, IL with no degree

The best paid personal care occupations in Bloomington, IL 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 Bloomington, IL run 6.5% below the national average (2024), so a Bloomington, IL salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Bloomington, IL · Employed

1Residential Advisors$51,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,370 – $59,55040
2First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$46,590
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,060 – $81,11060
3Manicurists and Pedicurists$40,830
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $57,03050
4Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$39,720
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $75,020310
5Recreation Workers$36,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $37,910470
6Childcare Workers$33,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $38,680520
7Animal Caretakers$31,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $49,490150
8Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers$31,220
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,03040
9Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $35,890240

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

#	Occupation	MedianBloomington, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,680	$35,370 – $59,550	40
2	First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,590	$35,060 – $81,110	60
3	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$40,830	$31,200 – $57,030	50
4	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,720	$31,200 – $75,020	310
5	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,030	$31,200 – $37,910	470
6	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,140	$31,200 – $38,680	520
7	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,280	$31,200 – $49,490	150
8	Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket TakersNo formal educational credential	$31,220	$31,200 – $38,030	40
9	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $35,890	240

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