High paying personal care jobs in Kingston, NY with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Kingston, NY 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 Kingston, NY run 0.7% above the national average (2024), so a Kingston, NY salary is worth about 0.99× 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, Kingston, NY · Employed

1Residential Advisors$51,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,770 – $65,59080
2Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$47,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,650 – $76,400100
3Baggage Porters and Bellhops$47,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,090 – $47,26080
4Tour and Travel Guides$40,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,850 – $48,30030
5Childcare Workers$36,360
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,640 – $44,810460
6Recreation Workers$35,730
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,810 – $56,390210
7Animal Caretakers$35,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,850 – $47,360150
8Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$34,720
Postsecondary nondegree award
$32,240 – $78,490140
9Manicurists and Pedicurists$34,500
Postsecondary nondegree award
$32,240 – $45,28080
10Amusement and Recreation Attendants$33,970
No formal educational credential
$32,240 – $48,670120

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

#	Occupation	MedianKingston, NY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,210	$36,770 – $65,590	80
2	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,840	$36,650 – $76,400	100
3	Baggage Porters and BellhopsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,230	$35,090 – $47,260	80
4	Tour and Travel GuidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,760	$33,850 – $48,300	30
5	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,360	$32,640 – $44,810	460
6	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,730	$32,810 – $56,390	210
7	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,090	$32,850 – $47,360	150
8	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$34,720	$32,240 – $78,490	140
9	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$34,500	$32,240 – $45,280	80
10	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$33,970	$32,240 – $48,670	120

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