Field
Healthcare support
What is this page & how do I use it?
This is a sector view — every healthcare support career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.
How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.
Careers
15
Median score
45
Avg growth
+7%
Wide moats
1/15
Every healthcare support career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $42k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)
| Career | Rating | Moat | Growth | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical therapist assistants | ★5.0 · 68 | 🏰 Wide | +22% | $66k |
| Occupational therapy assistants | ★5.0 · 66 | 🛡 Narrow | +19.2% | $68k |
| Massage therapists | ★5.0 · 64 | 🛡 Narrow | +15.4% | $58k |
| Medical equipment preparers | ★4.5 · 54 | 🛡 Narrow | +10% | $46k |
| Dental assistants | ★4.0 · 49 | 🛡 Narrow | +6.4% | $47k |
| Medical assistants | ★4.0 · 49 | 🛡 Narrow | +12.5% | $44k |
| Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers | ★3.5 · 46 | 🛡 Narrow | +8.7% | $37k |
| Phlebotomists | ★3.5 · 45 | 🛡 Narrow | +5.6% | $44k |
| Orderlies | ★3.0 · 37 | 🛡 Narrow | +3.3% | $38k |
| Nursing assistants | ★2.5 · 34 | 🛡 Narrow | +2.3% | $40k |
| Occupational therapy aides | ★2.5 · 32 | 🛡 Narrow | +2.5% | $37k |
| Physical therapist aides | ★2.5 · 31 | — | +2.8% | $35k |
| Psychiatric aides | ★2.0 · 29 | 🛡 Narrow | -0.4% | $42k |
| Pharmacy aides | ★2.0 · 25 | — | -0.1% | $37k |
| Medical transcriptionists | ★1.0 · 19 | — | -4.9% | $38k |