High paying personal care jobs in Champaign-Urbana, IL with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Champaign-Urbana, IL that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. 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 Champaign-Urbana, IL run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Champaign-Urbana, IL 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, Champaign-Urbana, IL · Employed

1Residential Advisors$51,400
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,890 – $57,24080
2Skincare Specialists$49,440
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,850 – $107,79040
3Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$42,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $66,350290
4Childcare Workers$34,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $41,600530
5Recreation Workers$33,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $44,850300
6Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$33,840
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $85,790180
7Animal Caretakers$32,950
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $41,600170
8Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,610
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,300240

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

#	Occupation	MedianChampaign-Urbana, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,400	$36,890 – $57,240	80
2	Skincare SpecialistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$49,440	$31,850 – $107,790	40
3	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,870	$31,200 – $66,350	290
4	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,990	$31,200 – $41,600	530
5	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,910	$31,200 – $44,850	300
6	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$33,840	$31,200 – $85,790	180
7	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,950	$31,200 – $41,600	170
8	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,610	$31,200 – $38,300	240

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