Occupation / job
Healthcare Support Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Healthcare Support Workers, All Other pays $48,430, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $1,590 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.
With 109,740 in the occupation, Healthcare Support Workers, All Other is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
These support roles suit people who want clinical work without the years of schooling, and who understand that the physical demands and the patient contact are the clinician’s while the pay is not.
No verified preparation time is on file for Healthcare Support Workers, All Other. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
$39,470 to $59,710 — 1.5x, or $1,686 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Healthcare Support Workers, All Other is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
The 25th percentile is $39,470 — $18.97 an hour, and $10,550 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.
Avoid it if you would resent the ceiling; the route up out of these roles is another qualification, not more experience.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 109,740 figure counts people already working as Healthcare Support Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.5x between $39,470 and $59,710 this is a normally shaped occupation. $48,430 is what the middle of Healthcare Support Workers, All Other earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
In cash terms the middle half of Healthcare Support Workers, All Other runs $39,470 to $59,710 — $20,240 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $48,430.
Getting to $59,710, the 75th percentile, is worth $11,280 a year more than the $48,430 midpoint and $20,240 more than the $39,470 a quarter of Healthcare Support Workers, All Other settle for.
From $48,430 it is $8,960 down to the bottom quarter and $11,280 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $23.28 at the midpoint for Healthcare Support Workers, All Other, $18.97 at the 25th percentile and $28.70 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Healthcare Support Workers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $48,430 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $48,430 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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