High paying personal care jobs in Peoria, IL with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Peoria, 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 Peoria, IL run 8.8% below the national average (2024), so a Peoria, IL salary is worth about 1.10× 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, Peoria, IL · Employed

1Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$43,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $61,940510
2Residential Advisors$43,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,120 – $55,91070
3Childcare Workers$33,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $37,530600
4Recreation Workers$32,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $43,680500
5Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$32,280
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $39,070340
6Animal Caretakers$32,010
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $39,380300
7Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $36,160270
8Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $34,56070

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

#	Occupation	MedianPeoria, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,900	$31,200 – $61,940	510
2	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,290	$38,120 – $55,910	70
3	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,340	$31,200 – $37,530	600
4	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,750	$31,200 – $43,680	500
5	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$32,280	$31,200 – $39,070	340
6	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,010	$31,200 – $39,380	300
7	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $36,160	270
8	Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket TakersNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $34,560	70

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