Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood · SOC 51-7041

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Woods

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 140 metro areas

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Longview-Kelso, WA	$60,100	180	4.4
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$55,280	380	0.2
3	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$54,340	30	0.3
4	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$54,090	280	0.1
5	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$51,540	40	0.1
6	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$50,720	60	0.1
7	Redding, CA	$50,630	160	2.2
8	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$50,250	80	0.4
9	St. Cloud, MN	$49,820	30	0.3
10	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$49,740	560	0.5
11	Baton Rouge, LA	$49,700	50	0.1
12	Cleveland, OH	$49,610	330	0.3
13	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$49,310	90	1.7
14	Vallejo, CA	$49,250	30	0.2
15	Medford, OR	$49,230	120	1.4
16	Portland-South Portland, ME	$48,710	90	0.3
17	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$48,700	250	0.0
18	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$48,400	130	0.1
19	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$48,400	300	1.9
20	Coeur d'Alene, ID	$48,350	90	1.3
21	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$48,300	80	0.1
22	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$48,210	80	0.3
23	Omaha, NE-IA	$47,610	40	0.1
24	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$47,460	420	0.4
25	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$47,110	60	0.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 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.