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Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · SOC 51-4191

Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Salary in the Erie Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Erie, PA metro area

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

Median annual wage$48,120
Median hourly wage$23.14

Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Erie, PA metro area earned a median of $48,120 per year ($23.14 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $36,220 at the 10th percentile to $62,160 at the 90th. BLS estimates 90 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Erie metro area earn more than $48,120 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $36,220 and $55,320.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$36,220$36,220$48,120$55,320$62,160
Hourly$17.41$17.41$23.14$26.60$29.89

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

  • Erie metro areathis metro area
    $48,120
  • Pennsylvaniastate (PA)
    $48,800
  • United Statesnational
    $48,750

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

The median here is −1% vs Pennsylvania overall and −1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,650$45,457$56,263$67,070Columbus, IN — $34,650San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $36,510Rockford, IL — $39,240Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $40,300Knoxville, TN — $40,940Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $41,600Fort Wayne, IN — $43,960New Haven, CT — $44,350Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $45,050Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $45,100Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $45,110Birmingham, AL — $45,440Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $46,510Jackson, MS — $46,630Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $47,150Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $47,160Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $47,430Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $47,550Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $48,060Erie, PA — $48,120Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $48,240Saginaw, MI — $48,340Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $48,640Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $48,670Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $49,100Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $49,280South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $49,430Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $49,470Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $49,600Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $49,620Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $49,680New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $50,010Spartanburg, SC — $50,280Cleveland, OH — $50,690Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $50,790Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $50,920Monroe, MI — $51,020Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $51,190Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $51,430Richmond, VA — $52,340St. Louis, MO-IL — $53,100Reading, PA — $53,860Akron, OH — $54,120Rochester, NY — $54,170Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $55,370Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $55,650Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $56,280Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $56,380York-Hanover, PA — $57,290Chattanooga, TN-GA — $57,800Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $58,250San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $58,300Pittsburgh, PA — $58,890Peoria, IL — $59,160San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $59,530Springfield, MA — $60,110Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $60,190Worcester, MA — $61,050Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $61,990Columbus, OH — $62,530Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $63,960Albany, OR — $64,210Oklahoma City, OK — $65,640Canton-Massillon, OH — $67,070

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 Erie metro area has the 45th-highest published median for this occupation among the 64 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 Pennsylvania

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Erie metro areathis page
    $48,120
  • Pittsburgh metro area
    $58,890
  • York metro area
    $57,290
  • Reading metro area
    $53,860
  • Philadelphia metro area
    $49,470
  • Allentown metro area
    $47,150

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$45,340Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$36,530First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$62,130Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$49,180Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$42,480Machinists$55,120

Highest-paying metro areas for heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics · Highest-paying occupations in Erie 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.