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 Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $38,600 per year ($18.56 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $29,650 at the 10th percentile to $64,500 at the 90th. BLS estimates 190 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in the Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area earn more than $38,600 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $37,240 and $48,940.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $29,650 | $37,240 | $38,600 | $48,940 | $64,500 |
| Hourly | $14.26 | $17.90 | $18.56 | $23.53 | $31.01 |
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
- Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area$38,600 median for Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $37,240 to $48,940
- Alabamastate$38,650 median for Alabama; middle half earns $36,550 to $45,220
- United Statesnational$45,760 median for United States; middle half earns $38,360 to $52,580
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is about the same vs Alabama overall and −16% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Alabama
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.
- Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan areathis page$38,600 median for Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $37,240 to $48,940
- $45,140 median for Birmingham metro area; middle half earns $39,280 to $47,620
- $43,150 median for Decatur metro area; middle half earns $39,750 to $51,990
- $38,370 median for Tuscaloosa metro area; middle half earns $37,690 to $38,370
- $36,800 median for Auburn metro area; middle half earns $28,510 to $37,310
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, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Southeast Alabama 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.