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Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders · SOC 51-3091

Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders 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$60,230
Median hourly wage$28.96

Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area earned a median of $60,230 per year ($28.96 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $44,530 at the 10th percentile to $78,370 at the 90th. BLS estimates 280 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders in the Seattle metro area earn more than $60,230 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $47,260 and $61,240.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$44,530$47,260$60,230$61,240$78,370
Hourly$21.41$22.72$28.96$29.44$37.68

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
    $60,230
  • Washingtonstate (WA)
    $50,590
  • United Statesnational
    $44,810

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

The median here is +19% vs Washington overall and +34% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,140$49,010$63,880$78,750Las Cruces, NM — $34,140San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $34,170Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $34,620Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $35,290Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $35,840Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $35,860Columbia, SC — $36,420Oklahoma City, OK — $36,800Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $37,590Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $37,820Knoxville, TN — $37,880Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $38,060Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $38,230Stockton-Lodi, CA — $38,240Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $38,440Baton Rouge, LA — $38,440Cleveland, OH — $38,750Fresno, CA — $39,420Salem, OR — $39,590Rocky Mount, NC — $40,690El Paso, TX — $41,390Merced, CA — $42,130Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $42,240Omaha, NE-IA — $43,410Grand Forks, ND-MN — $43,610Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $43,830Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $43,940Springfield, MO — $43,990Visalia, CA — $44,010Vallejo, CA — $44,420Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $45,110Urban Honolulu, HI — $45,450Rochester, NY — $45,970Syracuse, NY — $46,080Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $46,120Kansas City, MO-KS — $46,180Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $46,250Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $46,320Salinas, CA — $46,650St. Louis, MO-IL — $46,860Greensboro-High Point, NC — $47,010New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $47,110Twin Falls, ID — $47,210St. Joseph, MO-KS — $47,440Portland-South Portland, ME — $47,600Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $47,710Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $48,000Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $48,330Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $48,350St. Cloud, MN — $48,370Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $48,570Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $49,090Pittsburgh, PA — $49,570Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $49,780Raleigh-Cary, NC — $49,860Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $49,920Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $49,970San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $50,680Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $50,800Yakima, WA — $50,840Hanford-Corcoran, CA — $51,160Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $52,650Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $54,950Appleton, WI — $55,400Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $56,270Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $60,170Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $60,230Modesto, CA — $61,130Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $62,890Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $78,750

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 4th-highest published median for this occupation among the 70 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 Washington

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Seattle metro areathis page
    $60,230
  • Yakima metro area
    $50,840

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$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 food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenderss · 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.