Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · SOC 51-9124
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in the Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $45,810 per year ($22.03 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $38,020 at the 10th percentile to $63,930 at the 90th. BLS estimates 60 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area earn more than $45,810 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $42,120 and $54,760.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $38,020 | $42,120 | $45,810 | $54,760 | $63,930 |
| Hourly | $18.28 | $20.25 | $22.03 | $26.33 | $30.74 |
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.
How this area compares
- Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area$45,810 median for Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $42,120 to $54,760
- Oregonstate$49,400 median for Oregon; middle half earns $46,220 to $61,980
- United Statesnational$48,250 median for United States; middle half earns $40,590 to $59,680
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is −7% vs Oregon overall and −5% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Oregon
Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.
- Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan areathis page$45,810 median for Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $42,120 to $54,760
- $52,640 median for Portland metro area; middle half earns $46,930 to $65,670
- $49,390 median for Bend metro area; middle half earns $47,200 to $57,410
- $48,720 median for Medford metro area; middle half earns $44,720 to $58,880
- $47,290 median for Salem metro area; middle half earns $43,840 to $60,000
- $47,070 median for Eugene metro area; middle half earns $42,540 to $58,080
- $46,580 median for Grants Pass metro area; middle half earns $41,560 to $48,890
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:
Highest-paying metro areas for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area
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.