Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · SOC 51-4081
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Salary in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $41,920 per year ($20.16 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $32,050 at the 10th percentile to $48,350 at the 90th. BLS estimates 60 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area earn more than $41,920 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $38,940 and $48,350.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $32,050 | $38,940 | $41,920 | $48,350 | $48,350 |
| Hourly | $15.41 | $18.72 | $20.16 | $23.24 | $23.24 |
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
- Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area$41,920 median for Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $38,940 to $48,350
- Texasstate$49,050 median for Texas; middle half earns $39,460 to $80,110
- United Statesnational$47,180 median for United States; middle half earns $39,420 to $57,800
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is −15% vs Texas overall and −11% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Texas
Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.
- Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan areathis page$41,920 median for Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $38,940 to $48,350
- $80,110 median for Dallas metro area; middle half earns $51,020 to $80,110
- $45,470 median for Waco metro area; middle half earns $38,650 to $48,170
- $43,700 median for Austin metro area; middle half earns $38,990 to $48,570
- $42,050 median for Houston metro area; middle half earns $35,290 to $49,450
- $39,340 median for San Antonio metro area; middle half earns $30,050 to $47,440
- $37,540 median for Longview metro area; middle half earns $37,540 to $40,060
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 multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics · Highest-paying occupations in Coastal Plains Region of Texas 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.