High paying personal care jobs in Jefferson City, MO with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Jefferson City, MO 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 Jefferson City, MO run 12.0% below the national average (2024), so a Jefferson City, MO salary is worth about 1.14× 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, Jefferson City, MO · Employed

1Funeral Attendants$42,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,580 – $50,11050
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$38,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $56,680110
3Residential Advisors$37,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,500 – $49,36060
4Recreation Workers$35,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $50,470150
5Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers$35,450
Associate's degree
$28,600 – $78,58040
6Amusement and Recreation Attendants$29,730
No formal educational credential
$28,600 – $35,950130
7Animal Caretakers$29,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $36,220100
8Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$28,630
Postsecondary nondegree award
$28,600 – $60,220110
9Childcare Workers$28,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $36,580350

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

#	Occupation	MedianJefferson City, MO	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Funeral AttendantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,020	$34,580 – $50,110	50
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,670	$28,600 – $56,680	110
3	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,980	$32,500 – $49,360	60
4	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,710	$28,600 – $50,470	150
5	Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral ArrangersAssociate's degree	$35,450	$28,600 – $78,580	40
6	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$29,730	$28,600 – $35,950	130
7	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,280	$28,600 – $36,220	100
8	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$28,630	$28,600 – $60,220	110
9	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,600	$28,600 – $36,580	350

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Jefferson City, MO. 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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