High paying personal care jobs in Yakima, WA with no experience

The best paid personal care occupations in Yakima, WA 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 Yakima, WA run 4.5% below the national average (2024), so a Yakima, WA salary is worth about 1.05× 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, Yakima, WA · Employed

1Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers$60,130
Associate's degree
$41,020 – $65,64040
2Gambling Dealers$59,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,550 – $122,170190
3Residential Advisors$51,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,650 – $64,91040
4Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$46,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,350 – $82,400160
5Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$46,270
Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,650 – $95,560100
6Manicurists and Pedicurists$45,330
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,880 – $47,37070
7Recreation Workers$38,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,030 – $56,190170
8Childcare Workers$36,550
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,650 – $42,100130
9Animal Caretakers$35,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,650 – $59,920110
10Amusement and Recreation Attendants$34,670
No formal educational credential
$34,650 – $45,900120

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

#	Occupation	MedianYakima, WA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral ArrangersAssociate's degree	$60,130	$41,020 – $65,640	40
2	Gambling DealersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,250	$35,550 – $122,170	190
3	Residential AdvisorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,450	$34,650 – $64,910	40
4	Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness InstructorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,860	$36,350 – $82,400	160
5	Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and CosmetologistsPostsecondary nondegree award	$46,270	$34,650 – $95,560	100
6	Manicurists and PedicuristsPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,330	$37,880 – $47,370	70
7	Recreation WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,820	$35,030 – $56,190	170
8	Childcare WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,550	$34,650 – $42,100	130
9	Animal CaretakersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,650	$34,650 – $59,920	110
10	Amusement and Recreation AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$34,670	$34,650 – $45,900	120

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