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Machine Feeders and Offbearers · SOC 53-7063

Machine Feeders and Offbearers Salary in the Houston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area

Figures describe the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Houston city limits.

Median annual wage$36,460
Median hourly wage$17.53

Machine Feeders and Offbearers in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area earned a median of $36,460 per year ($17.53 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $28,950 at the 10th percentile to $51,150 at the 90th. BLS estimates 380 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Machine Feeders and Offbearers in the Houston metro area earn more than $36,460 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $29,950 and $46,930.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$28,950$29,950$36,460$46,930$51,150
Hourly$13.92$14.40$17.53$22.56$24.59

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

  • Houston metro areathis metro area
    $36,460
  • Texasstate (TX)
    $37,350
  • United Statesnational
    $41,220

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

The median here is −2% vs Texas overall and −12% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$22,400$40,633$58,867$77,100San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $22,400Oklahoma City, OK — $29,700Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $31,400Jackson, MS — $32,300Youngstown-Warren, OH — $32,700Lynchburg, VA — $32,830Tuscaloosa, AL — $32,830Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $33,400Jacksonville, FL — $34,110Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $34,350Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $34,400Gainesville, GA — $34,590Winston-Salem, NC — $34,790Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $34,970Pittsburgh, PA — $35,020Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $35,390Greensboro-High Point, NC — $35,500El Paso, TX — $35,600Mansfield, OH — $36,290Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $36,460San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $36,490Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $36,560Evansville, IN — $36,600Tulsa, OK — $36,680Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $36,800Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $36,950Richmond, VA — $37,110Rochester, NY — $37,230Fort Wayne, IN — $37,410Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $37,570Fort Smith, AR-OK — $37,710Raleigh-Cary, NC — $37,740South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $37,780Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $37,820Montgomery, AL — $37,890Asheville, NC — $38,130Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $38,130Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $38,160Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $38,220Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $38,330Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $38,470Knoxville, TN — $38,530Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $38,560Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $38,600Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $38,780Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $38,870Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $38,980Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $39,160Fresno, CA — $39,170Manchester-Nashua, NH — $39,190San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $39,210York-Hanover, PA — $39,350Columbus, GA-AL — $39,450Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $39,450Springfield, MA — $39,610Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $39,710Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $39,840Modesto, CA — $39,950Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $40,400Bellingham, WA — $40,430Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $40,900Reno, NV — $41,140Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $41,340Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $41,490Canton-Massillon, OH — $41,510Omaha, NE-IA — $41,680New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $41,690Merced, CA — $41,930Amarillo, TX — $42,140Lexington-Fayette, KY — $42,460Birmingham, AL — $42,750Bowling Green, KY — $43,220Owensboro, KY — $43,300Visalia, CA — $43,510Gettysburg, PA — $43,610Cleveland, OH — $43,630Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $43,720Worcester, MA — $43,720Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $43,780Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $43,870San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $44,020Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $44,120Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $44,170Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $44,410Jefferson City, MO — $45,130Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $45,180Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $45,320Bend, OR — $45,360St. Louis, MO-IL — $45,430Eugene-Springfield, OR — $45,550Harrisonburg, VA — $45,610Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $45,680Syracuse, NY — $45,690Columbus, IN — $45,700Toledo, OH — $45,880Albany, OR — $45,900Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $45,960Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $45,990Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $46,000Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $46,140Akron, OH — $46,190Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $46,310Salem, OR — $46,600Medford, OR — $46,630Vineland, NJ — $46,660Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $46,950Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $47,020San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $47,450Longview-Kelso, WA — $47,510Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $48,430Wichita, KS — $49,100Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $49,200Stockton-Lodi, CA — $49,260Springfield, MO — $50,350Utica-Rome, NY — $51,400Reading, PA — $51,490Lancaster, PA — $52,770Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $53,650Williamsport, PA — $54,340Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $58,960Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $59,870Columbus, OH — $60,410Kansas City, MO-KS — $77,100

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 Houston metro area has the 104th-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 Texas

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

  • Houston metro areathis page
    $36,460
  • Amarillo metro area
    $42,140
  • Dallas metro area
    $40,400
  • San Antonio metro area
    $36,490
  • El Paso metro area
    $35,600
  • Austin metro area
    $34,350

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:

Stockers and Order Fillers$36,890Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$38,000Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$56,840Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators$45,990Light Truck Drivers$43,920First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors$60,760

Highest-paying metro areas for machine feeders and offbearerss · Highest-paying occupations in Houston 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.