High paying personal care jobs in Owensboro, KY with no degree
The best paid personal care occupations in Owensboro, KY 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 Owensboro, KY run 11.4% below the national average (2024), so a Owensboro, KY salary is worth about 1.13× 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
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,560 – $50,87050High school diploma or equivalent
$23,640 – $34,940170High school diploma or equivalent
$22,710 – $47,46070Postsecondary nondegree award
$22,530 – $74,38040High school diploma or equivalent
$22,420 – $38,110150No formal educational credential
$16,380 – $35,98050
Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.
| # | Occupation | MedianOwensboro, KY | 10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent | $35,440 | $30,560 – $50,870 | 50 |
| 2 | Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $29,150 | $23,640 – $34,940 | 170 |
| 3 | Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $29,070 | $22,710 – $47,460 | 70 |
| 4 | Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award | $27,890 | $22,530 – $74,380 | 40 |
| 5 | Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $27,000 | $22,420 – $38,110 | 150 |
| 6 | Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential | $24,690 | $16,380 – $35,980 | 50 |
Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Owensboro, KY. 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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