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Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders · SOC 51-3093

Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders Salary in the Grand Rapids Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area

Figures describe the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Grand Rapids city limits.

Median annual wage$47,260
Median hourly wage$22.72

Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area earned a median of $47,260 per year ($22.72 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $42,770 at the 10th percentile to $52,660 at the 90th. BLS estimates 190 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders in the Grand Rapids metro area earn more than $47,260 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $43,400 and $49,710.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$42,770$43,400$47,260$49,710$52,660
Hourly$20.56$20.86$22.72$23.90$25.32

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

  • Grand Rapids metro areathis metro area
    $47,260
  • Michiganstate (MI)
    $47,260
  • United Statesnational
    $41,590

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

The median here is about the same vs Michigan overall and +14% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$23,600$36,963$50,327$63,690Baton Rouge, LA — $23,600San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $25,480McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $26,950San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $30,340Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $32,180Raleigh-Cary, NC — $32,740Greensboro-High Point, NC — $33,120Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $33,280Kansas City, MO-KS — $34,200Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $35,240Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $35,350Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $35,890El Paso, TX — $36,120Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $36,190Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $36,450Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $36,520Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $36,610Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $36,740Jacksonville, FL — $36,890Joplin, MO-KS — $37,190Springfield, MO — $37,400Altoona, PA — $37,530Richmond, VA — $38,030Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $38,060Florence, SC — $38,220Fresno, CA — $38,430Oklahoma City, OK — $38,480Vallejo, CA — $38,640St. Louis, MO-IL — $38,690Tulsa, OK — $38,750Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $38,890Fayetteville, NC — $39,230Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $39,410Cleveland, OH — $39,650Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $39,790Fond du Lac, WI — $39,830Pittsburgh, PA — $39,880Salem, OR — $39,920Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $39,960Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $40,150Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $40,170Green Bay, WI — $40,200Columbus, OH — $40,650Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $40,740Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $41,030Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $41,070Knoxville, TN — $41,200New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $41,590Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $41,800Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $42,710Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $42,760Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $42,860Canton-Massillon, OH — $42,950Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $44,240Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $44,280Boise City, ID — $45,120Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $45,260Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $45,340Reading, PA — $45,470Visalia, CA — $45,880Twin Falls, ID — $46,010York-Hanover, PA — $46,350Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $46,410Syracuse, NY — $46,780San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $47,220Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $47,260St. Cloud, MN — $47,380Rochester, NY — $47,760Appleton, WI — $47,920Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $48,010Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $48,230Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $48,290Omaha, NE-IA — $48,420Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $48,460Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $48,980Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $49,220Dubuque, IA — $50,140Portland-South Portland, ME — $50,330Stockton-Lodi, CA — $51,560Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $51,600Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $55,270Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $56,190Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $57,490Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $57,680Modesto, CA — $59,010Cedar Rapids, IA — $63,690

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 Grand Rapids metro area has the 21st-highest published median for this occupation among the 86 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 Michigan

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

  • Grand Rapids metro areathis page
    $47,260
  • Detroit metro area
    $48,230

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$39,120Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$40,430First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$66,330Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$42,050Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$41,890Machinists$50,110

Highest-paying metro areas for food cooking machine operators and tenderss · Highest-paying occupations in Grand Rapids 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.