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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 Seattle Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area

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

Median annual wage$48,520
Median hourly wage$23.33

Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area earned a median of $48,520 per year ($23.33 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $40,510 at the 10th percentile to $69,580 at the 90th. BLS estimates 490 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 Seattle metro area earn more than $48,520 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $46,620 and $59,690.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$40,510$46,620$48,520$59,690$69,580
Hourly$19.47$22.41$23.33$28.70$33.45

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.

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How this area compares

  • Seattle metro areathis metro area
    $48,520
  • Washingtonstate (WA)
    $47,230
  • United Statesnational
    $47,720

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

The median here is +3% vs Washington overall and +2% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$21,980$36,240$50,500$64,760San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $21,980Flint, MI — $35,600St. Joseph, MO-KS — $35,630Logan, UT-ID — $35,940Springfield, MO — $36,370Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $36,890Jacksonville, FL — $37,190Kenosha, WI — $39,050Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $39,650Wichita, KS — $39,790Raleigh-Cary, NC — $40,160Youngstown-Warren, OH — $40,460Roanoke, VA — $40,530San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $40,790Jackson, MI — $40,840Jackson, MS — $41,080Oklahoma City, OK — $41,120Erie, PA — $41,430Fresno, CA — $41,810Modesto, CA — $41,850Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $41,970Johnson City, TN — $42,140Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $42,650El Paso, TX — $43,890Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $44,210Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $44,280Visalia, CA — $44,420Springfield, MA — $44,450Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $44,730Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $44,790Alexandria, LA — $44,800Lynchburg, VA — $44,840Tulsa, OK — $45,100Athens-Clarke County, GA — $45,140Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $45,160Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $45,170Clarksville, TN-KY — $45,180St. Cloud, MN — $45,220Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $45,250Cleveland, OH — $45,410Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $45,760Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $45,790Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $45,950Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $45,960Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $46,010Madison, WI — $46,150Reno, NV — $46,250Stockton-Lodi, CA — $46,390Lancaster, PA — $46,400Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $46,420Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $46,520Utica-Rome, NY — $46,660Richmond, VA — $46,670Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $46,730Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $46,750Canton-Massillon, OH — $46,800Winston-Salem, NC — $46,860Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $46,890Gainesville, GA — $46,930Columbus, OH — $47,090Akron, OH — $47,110Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $47,180San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $47,200Toledo, OH — $47,210York-Hanover, PA — $47,220Morristown, TN — $47,240Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $47,630Eau Claire, WI — $47,850Dalton, GA — $47,940Ogden, UT — $47,960Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $47,970Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $47,990Sheboygan, WI — $48,080Chattanooga, TN-GA — $48,160Jackson, TN — $48,250Syracuse, NY — $48,260Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $48,370Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $48,510Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $48,520Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $48,550Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $48,570Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $48,590Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $48,630Wausau, WI — $48,660Kansas City, MO-KS — $48,680Midland, MI — $48,750Rochester, NY — $48,940Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $48,980Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $49,010Kankakee, IL — $49,280Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $49,420Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $49,450New Haven, CT — $49,590Green Bay, WI — $49,660Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $49,840Evansville, IN — $49,970Worcester, MA — $50,660Asheville, NC — $50,880Knoxville, TN — $51,170Bloomington, IN — $51,200Janesville-Beloit, WI — $51,200Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $51,220Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $51,230Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $51,410Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $51,510Birmingham, AL — $51,810Terre Haute, IN — $52,510Baton Rouge, LA — $53,240San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $53,670Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $53,800Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $54,170Reading, PA — $54,490St. Louis, MO-IL — $54,610Fort Smith, AR-OK — $55,380Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $55,420Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA — $55,790New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $55,960Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $56,020Columbia, SC — $56,430Manchester-Nashua, NH — $56,820Fort Wayne, IN — $56,970Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $57,370Greensboro-High Point, NC — $60,390Pittsburgh, PA — $60,820Duluth, MN-WI — $61,530Lincoln, NE — $61,570Appleton, WI — $61,960Cedar Rapids, IA — $64,520Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $64,760Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $64,760

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 Seattle metro area has the 52nd-highest published median for this occupation among the 130 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”.

Keep exploring

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

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$50,150Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$76,800First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$80,460Machinists$74,560Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$58,370Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers$110,470

Highest-paying metro areas for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics · Highest-paying occupations in Seattle 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.