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Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · SOC 51-9041

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$47,730
Median hourly wage$22.95

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $47,730 per year ($22.95 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $40,430 at the 10th percentile to $55,560 at the 90th. BLS estimates 850 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Boston metro area earn more than $47,730 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $41,050 and $51,410.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$40,430$41,050$47,730$51,410$55,560
Hourly$19.44$19.73$22.95$24.72$26.71

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

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $47,730
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $47,220
  • United Statesnational
    $45,760

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

The median here is +1% vs Massachusetts overall and +4% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$23,330$45,200$67,070$88,940San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $23,330El Paso, TX — $31,070Dalton, GA — $33,130Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $33,610Longview, TX — $35,210Oklahoma City, OK — $35,990San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $36,170Auburn-Opelika, AL — $36,800Youngstown-Warren, OH — $37,150Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $37,170Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $37,210Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $37,450Evansville, IN — $37,480Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $37,650Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $38,370Tuscaloosa, AL — $38,370Boise City, ID — $38,580Fort Smith, AR-OK — $38,650Tulsa, OK — $38,690Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $38,800Rapid City, SD — $38,970El Centro, CA — $39,270Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $39,530New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $39,680Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $40,000Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $41,070Raleigh-Cary, NC — $41,620Jefferson City, MO — $41,670Canton-Massillon, OH — $41,810Morristown, TN — $41,810Columbus, IN — $41,890Jackson, TN — $42,320Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI — $42,320St. Joseph, MO-KS — $42,410Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $42,490Kansas City, MO-KS — $42,700Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $42,770Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $42,970Decatur, AL — $43,150Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $43,280Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $43,530Richmond, VA — $43,800Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $44,110Manchester-Nashua, NH — $44,210Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $44,660Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $44,800Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $44,830Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $45,100Birmingham, AL — $45,140Akron, OH — $45,220Cleveland, OH — $45,270Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $45,270Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $45,290Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $45,330Winston-Salem, NC — $45,600Winchester, VA-WV — $45,630Clarksville, TN-KY — $45,670Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $45,690Knoxville, TN — $45,750Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $45,760Wichita, KS — $45,760Omaha, NE-IA — $45,840Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $45,890Lima, OH — $45,920Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $45,950Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $46,010Chattanooga, TN-GA — $46,220Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $46,440Fresno, CA — $46,470Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $46,710Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $46,870Madison, WI — $46,900Fort Wayne, IN — $46,910Eugene-Springfield, OR — $47,070Greensboro-High Point, NC — $47,120Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $47,150Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $47,220San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $47,270Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $47,300Michigan City-La Porte, IN — $47,360Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $47,410Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $47,500Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $47,600Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $47,730Columbus, OH — $47,830Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $48,120Gettysburg, PA — $48,250Rochester, NY — $48,420Syracuse, NY — $48,440Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $48,660Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $48,700Worcester, MA — $48,860York-Hanover, PA — $48,860Pittsburgh, PA — $48,890Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $49,100Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $49,130Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $49,280Vineland, NJ — $49,550Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $50,070Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $50,150Lancaster, PA — $50,270Jackson, MS — $50,370Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $50,430Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $50,940Spartanburg, SC — $51,110Toledo, OH — $51,250Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $51,360Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $51,670Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $51,830Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $52,340Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $52,560Stockton-Lodi, CA — $54,200Reading, PA — $54,530Appleton, WI — $54,630San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $55,780Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $55,940St. Louis, MO-IL — $56,320Duluth, MN-WI — $57,910Terre Haute, IN — $59,080Vallejo, CA — $59,110Lincoln, NE — $61,820Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $72,500Modesto, CA — $88,940

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 Boston metro area has the 40th-highest published median for this occupation among the 123 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”.

Other metro areas in Massachusetts

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Boston metro areathis page
    $47,730
  • Worcester metro area
    $48,860

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:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$47,860Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$48,060First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$82,660Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$58,210Machinists$72,060Bakers$38,570

Highest-paying metro areas for extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Boston 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.