Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · SOC 51-9124
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in the Louisiana
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Louisiana
Figures describe the state of Louisiana as a whole.
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Louisiana earned a median of $47,950 per year ($23.05 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $35,590 at the 10th percentile to $63,330 at the 90th. BLS estimates 810 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Louisiana earn more than $47,950 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $39,420 and $57,420.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $35,590 | $39,420 | $47,950 | $57,420 | $63,330 |
| Hourly | $17.11 | $18.95 | $23.05 | $27.61 | $30.45 |
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
- Louisiana$47,950 median for Louisiana; middle half earns $39,420 to $57,420
- 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 −1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Metro areas in Louisiana
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.
- Louisianathis page$47,950 median for Louisiana; middle half earns $39,420 to $57,420
- $52,190 median for Baton Rouge metro area; middle half earns $44,410 to $60,130
- $47,360 median for New Orleans metro area; middle half earns $41,330 to $57,610
- $46,450 median for Shreveport metro area; middle half earns $38,650 to $57,040
- $45,820 median for Lafayette metro area; middle half earns $37,810 to $56,360
- $38,120 median for Houma metro area; middle half earns $36,160 to $55,560
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 Louisiana
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.