Highest-paying Cities for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

The top 100 highest paying cities for milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $93,760, Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut is the highest paying city for milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. It is followed by Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington (average annual salary $86,780). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in a specific city, use the links in the table.

Table 1. 100 Highest-paying cities/areas for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut	$93,760	$81,460	70
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	$86,780	$45,780	80
3	South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, Georgia	$77,110	$30,340	40
4	Tacoma, Washington	$70,560	$29,330	50
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California	$66,850	$45,270	410
6	Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky	$62,970	$31,260	80
7	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville (IL-IN-WI Area), Illinois	$62,820	$39,250	620
8	Nevada nonmetropolitan area, Nevada	$62,480	$52,240	510
9	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$61,970	$40,950	360
10	Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska	$60,390	$38,150	60
11	Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California	$59,990	$37,460	50
12	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado	$59,770	$54,150	30
13	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, Connecticut	$59,310	$37,340	160
14	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona	$59,120	$47,910	200
15	Decatur, Alabama	$59,090	$35,960	50
16	Owensboro, Kentucky	$58,830	$52,830	60
17	New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York	$58,480	$40,710	240
18	Springfield, Massachusetts	$58,040	$40,520	80
19	Mobile, Alabama	$57,080	$42,710	30
20	South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, Wisconsin	$56,850	$43,440	n/a
21	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	$55,240	$42,390	50
22	Peabody, Massachusetts	$55,080	$35,030	40
23	Newark-Union, Pennsylvania	$54,220	$34,150	160
24	Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$52,920	$28,950	150
25	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California	$52,040	$37,480	190
26	Tulsa, Oklahoma	$51,990	$30,430	80
27	Dayton, Ohio	$51,900	$33,630	90
28	Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin	$51,630	$40,380	120
29	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania	$51,420	$36,510	110
30	Florence-Muscle Shoals, Alabama	$51,100	$31,700	90
31	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$51,060	$36,250	240
32	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Pennsylvania	$51,000	$35,450	130
33	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$50,940	$37,620	60
34	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, New York	$50,770	$35,710	50
35	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Michigan	$50,600	$35,400	190
36	Lincoln, Nebraska	$49,860	$41,200	50
37	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisconsin	$49,600	$39,070	70
38	Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio	$49,320	$36,900	170
39	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	$49,310	$33,640	50
40	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington	$49,080	$33,960	140
41	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California	$48,940	$35,120	50
42	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, New Hampshire	$48,860	$36,290	120
43	Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana	$48,860	$39,660	140
44	Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$48,790	$37,370	30
45	Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia	$48,340	$32,670	40
46	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$48,050	$37,350	30
47	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California	$47,850	$36,450	860
48	Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$47,840	$36,750	40
49	Evansville, Kentucky	$47,570	$44,040	50
50	Columbus, Ohio	$47,480	$34,680	40
51	Rockford, Illinois	$47,450	$34,660	40
52	Worcester, Massachusetts	$47,050	$34,920	80
53	Indianapolis-Carmel, Indiana	$46,910	$39,530	160
54	Other Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$46,690	$35,350	170
55	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$46,600	$29,800	120
56	Toledo, Ohio	$46,410	$35,010	40
57	Northeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, Alabama	$46,270	$33,360	80
58	St Louis, Missouri	$46,200	$28,420	140
59	Northwest Illinois nonmetropolitan area, Illinois	$46,000	$26,370	40
60	West Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$45,950	$35,810	50
61	Madison, Wisconsin	$45,880	$38,710	30
62	Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$45,800	$36,570	140
63	Columbus, Indiana	$45,770	$35,870	30
64	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California	$45,640	$31,710	720
65	Knoxville, Tennessee	$45,500	$29,760	100
66	Prescott, Arizona	$45,430	$23,400	n/a
67	Rochester, New York	$45,430	$30,380	190
68	Central Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$45,340	$29,920	60
69	Fort Wayne, Indiana	$45,300	$35,370	80
70	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington	$45,260	$32,050	130
71	Erie, Pennsylvania	$45,240	$26,210	40
72	Nassau-Suffolk, New York	$45,030	$30,910	100
73	Salt Lake City, Utah	$44,940	$35,810	50
74	East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, Georgia	$44,920	$17,330	40
75	Sioux City, South Dakota	$44,900	$35,520	30
76	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pennsylvania	$44,840	$32,770	40
77	Rochester-Dover, New Hampshire	$44,790	$31,930	40
78	Wilmington, New Jersey	$44,670	$28,760	n/a
79	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa	$44,590	$34,080	60
80	Tucson, Arizona	$44,440	$23,950	70
81	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, Rhode Island	$44,260	$33,850	40
82	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, New Hampshire	$44,240	$29,010	n/a
83	Fort Smith, Oklahoma	$44,220	$29,090	30
84	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California	$43,860	$35,450	180
85	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	$43,460	$33,170	120
86	Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area, Georgia	$43,400	$34,550	40
87	Green Bay, Wisconsin	$43,340	$35,160	n/a
88	Lansing-East Lansing, Michigan	$43,270	$25,100	n/a
89	East Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$43,230	$23,430	n/a
90	Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont	$43,200	$31,490	30
91	Far Western Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$43,060	$30,250	40
92	Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$42,520	$34,180	100
93	Edison-New Brunswick, New Jersey	$42,480	$32,210	80
94	Mansfield, Ohio	$42,410	$31,370	40
95	Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$42,300	$31,760	50
96	Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pennsylvania	$42,250	$28,430	60
97	Camden, New Jersey	$42,080	$30,120	110
98	Lynchburg, Virginia	$41,980	$26,870	60
99	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, California	$41,960	$28,790	50
100	Southwestern Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area, Oklahoma	$41,850	$22,480	n/a

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