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

The best paid personal care occupations in Springfield, 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 Springfield, IL run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Springfield, 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, Springfield, IL · Employed

1Residential Advisors$41,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,090 – $56,48050
2Tour and Travel Guides$41,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,110 – $74,39040
3Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$36,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $56,290260
4Childcare Workers$35,170
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $38,120380
5Animal Caretakers$34,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $49,340150
6Recreation Workers$31,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $44,810170
7Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$31,200
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $54,510280
8Amusement and Recreation Attendants$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $35,870170
9Manicurists and Pedicurists$31,200
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $45,48040

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

#	Occupation	MedianSpringfield, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,710	$35,090 – $56,480	50
2	Tour and Travel GuidesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,660	$34,110 – $74,390	40
3	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,060	$31,200 – $56,290	260
4	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,170	$31,200 – $38,120	380
5	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,160	$31,200 – $49,340	150
6	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,530	$31,200 – $44,810	170
7	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$31,200	$31,200 – $54,510	280
8	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $35,870	170
9	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$31,200	$31,200 – $45,480	40

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