Healthcare Support Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($32,450) to the 90th ($68,180). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 103,650 people in May 2024, 0.07% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 16,060 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 32.3% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Louisiana, whose location quotient of 4.08 says this work is 4.08 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $68,180, which is 2.1 times the $32,450 at the 10th, a difference of $35,730 annually. Because the mean wage ($48,760) sits above the median ($46,050), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $72,700, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Healthcare Support Workers, All Other stands number 264 by employment and number 620 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Support Occupations, the group median wage is $41,590 across 17 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 11% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.4% of the group's 7,448,000 jobs. In 24 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,050, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 5,080 jobs, 4.9% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $34,510 a year, against $68,600 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Healthcare Support Workers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $1,771 every two weeks on an annual $46,050, which is $3,838 a month and $886 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,570) to the 75th ($57,650) is worth $20,080 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $50,655 would sit between the median ($46,050) and the 75th percentile ($57,650), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,570, is $8,480 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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