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Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders · SOC 51-9191

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders Salary in the Akron Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Akron, OH metro area

Figures describe the Akron, OH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Akron city limits.

Median annual wage$40,820
Median hourly wage$19.63

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders in the Akron, OH metro area earned a median of $40,820 per year ($19.63 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $35,900 at the 10th percentile to $52,120 at the 90th. BLS estimates 40 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders in the Akron metro area earn more than $40,820 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $36,730 and $46,820.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$35,900$36,730$40,820$46,820$52,120
Hourly$17.26$17.66$19.63$22.51$25.06

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Akron metro areathis metro area
    $40,820
  • Ohiostate (OH)
    $49,390
  • United Statesnational
    $46,460

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −17% vs Ohio overall and −12% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$30,400$53,877$77,353$100,830Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $30,400Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $33,870Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $34,550Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $34,650Greensboro-High Point, NC — $34,790Winston-Salem, NC — $36,070Springfield, MA — $36,650Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $37,100St. Louis, MO-IL — $37,740Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $38,340Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $38,370Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $38,560South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $39,360Knoxville, TN — $39,520Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $39,780Akron, OH — $40,820Albany, OR — $41,710Richmond, VA — $43,020Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $43,660Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $43,820Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $44,240Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $44,410Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $44,570Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $45,030Columbus, OH — $45,090Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $45,100Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $46,090Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $46,450Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $46,960Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $47,100Cleveland, OH — $47,220Syracuse, NY — $47,240Wichita, KS — $47,490Rochester, NY — $47,550Chattanooga, TN-GA — $47,650Joplin, MO-KS — $48,050New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $48,820Eugene-Springfield, OR — $49,180Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $49,930Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $50,720Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $50,850Boise City, ID — $51,190Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $51,410Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $51,540Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $51,560Green Bay, WI — $52,000Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $54,840Medford, OR — $54,850Gettysburg, PA — $56,240Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $57,400Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $60,290Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $61,400Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $100,830

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Akron metro area has the 38th-highest published median for this occupation among the 53 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Ohio

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Akron metro areathis page
    $40,820
  • Cleveland metro area
    $47,220
  • Cincinnati metro area
    $45,100
  • Columbus metro area
    $45,090

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$42,530First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$70,830Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$47,780Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$44,530Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators$53,100Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$50,340

Highest-paying metro areas for adhesive bonding machine operators and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Akron Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.