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

The best paid personal care occupations in Rockford, 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 Rockford, IL run 7.8% below the national average (2024), so a Rockford, IL salary is worth about 1.09× 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, Rockford, IL · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$40,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,790 – $60,51060
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$37,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,670 – $58,820410
3Childcare Workers$33,560
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $37,590500
4Recreation Workers$32,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $44,420250
5Animal Caretakers$32,720
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $43,000240
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $35,940240

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

#	Occupation	MedianRockford, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling ServicesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,470	$34,790 – $60,510	60
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,290	$31,670 – $58,820	410
3	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,560	$31,200 – $37,590	500
4	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,980	$31,200 – $44,420	250
5	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,720	$31,200 – $43,000	240
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $35,940	240

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