High paying personal care jobs in Dover, DE with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Dover, DE 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 Dover, DE run 2.5% below the national average (2024), so a Dover, DE salary is worth about 1.03× 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, Dover, DE · Employed

1Residential Advisors$44,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $58,71060
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$37,350
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $71,670130
3Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other$34,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,610 – $57,66030
4Recreation Workers$33,970
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $49,190120
5Animal Caretakers$31,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $36,430240
6Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$31,200
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $58,610170
7Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $36,310150
8Childcare Workers$31,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $44,72090
9Manicurists and Pedicurists$31,200
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $37,32070

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

#	Occupation	MedianDover, DE	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,680	$31,200 – $58,710	60
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,350	$31,200 – $71,670	130
3	Personal Care and Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,780	$31,610 – $57,660	30
4	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,970	$31,200 – $49,190	120
5	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,200	$31,200 – $36,430	240
6	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$31,200	$31,200 – $58,610	170
7	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $36,310	150
8	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,200	$31,200 – $44,720	90
9	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$31,200	$31,200 – $37,320	70

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