Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · SOC 51-4021
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Salary in the Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $45,980 per year ($22.11 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $37,860 at the 10th percentile to $57,400 at the 90th. BLS estimates 60 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area earn more than $45,980 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $39,670 and $52,480.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $37,860 | $39,670 | $45,980 | $52,480 | $57,400 |
| Hourly | $18.20 | $19.07 | $22.11 | $25.23 | $27.60 |
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
- Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area$45,980 median for Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $39,670 to $52,480
- Pennsylvaniastate$51,150 median for Pennsylvania; middle half earns $45,660 to $60,370
- United Statesnational$47,720 median for United States; middle half earns $40,450 to $56,840
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is −10% vs Pennsylvania overall and −4% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Pennsylvania
Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.
- Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan areathis page$45,980 median for Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $39,670 to $52,480
- $60,820 median for Pittsburgh metro area; middle half earns $47,560 to $98,280
- $57,370 median for Allentown metro area; middle half earns $46,310 to $62,520
- $54,490 median for Reading metro area; middle half earns $47,980 to $61,860
- $51,230 median for Harrisburg metro area; middle half earns $47,090 to $60,880
- $49,840 median for Scranton metro area; middle half earns $44,060 to $61,150
- $48,370 median for Philadelphia metro area; middle half earns $45,780 to $58,200
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 extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics · Highest-paying occupations in Northwestern Pennsylvania 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.