Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · SOC 51-4035

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastics

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 47 metro areas

Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$105,430	110	0.1
2	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$66,440	90	0.1
3	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$65,540	Not published	Not published
4	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$63,360	470	0.1
5	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$62,530	110	0.1
6	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$62,220	40	0.0
7	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$61,340	130	0.0
8	Youngstown-Warren, OH	$60,380	30	0.2
9	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$60,140	60	0.1
10	Springfield, MA	$59,260	Not published	Not published
11	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$59,050	230	0.2
12	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	$59,040	190	1.5
13	Canton-Massillon, OH	$58,590	30	0.2
14	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$58,360	180	0.1
15	Omaha, NE-IA	$58,290	30	0.1
16	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$56,970	230	0.1
17	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$56,870	140	0.0
18	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$56,700	50	0.0
19	Fort Wayne, IN	$55,860	40	0.2
20	Cleveland, OH	$55,500	130	0.1
21	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$55,340	50	0.0
22	St. Louis, MO-IL	$55,240	100	0.1
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$54,120	50	0.0
24	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$54,090	660	0.1
25	Kansas City, MO-KS	$53,990	110	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.