Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · SOC 51-9021
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in the Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $48,840 per year ($23.48 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $36,750 at the 10th percentile to $48,840 at the 90th. BLS estimates 50 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area earn more than $48,840 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $48,820 and $48,840.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $36,750 | $48,820 | $48,840 | $48,840 | $48,840 |
| Hourly | $17.67 | $23.47 | $23.48 | $23.48 | $23.48 |
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
- Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area$48,840 median for Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $48,820 to $48,840
- Missouristate$48,840 median for Missouri; middle half earns $44,500 to $60,300
- United Statesnational$48,540 median for United States; middle half earns $40,430 to $60,040
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is about the same vs Missouri overall and +1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Missouri
Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.
- Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan areathis page$48,840 median for Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $48,820 to $48,840
- $57,690 median for Kansas City metro area; middle half earns $46,040 to $67,680
- $50,640 median for St. Joseph metro area; middle half earns $49,780 to $50,640
- $48,450 median for St. Louis metro area; middle half earns $46,680 to $51,180
- $47,790 median for Joplin metro area; middle half earns $46,500 to $51,340
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 crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Southwest Missouri 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.