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 Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Northern West Virginia 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 Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $47,080 per year ($22.64 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $36,240 at the 10th percentile to $54,700 at the 90th. BLS estimates 230 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area earn more than $47,080 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $39,920 and $54,700.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $36,240 | $39,920 | $47,080 | $54,700 | $54,700 |
| Hourly | $17.42 | $19.19 | $22.64 | $26.30 | $26.30 |
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
- Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area$47,080 median for Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $39,920 to $54,700
- West Virginiastate$76,080 median for West Virginia; middle half earns $51,010 to $76,080
- 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 −38% vs West Virginia overall and about the same vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in West Virginia
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.
- Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan areathis page$47,080 median for Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $39,920 to $54,700
- $71,470 median for Charleston metro area; middle half earns $36,920 to $71,470
- $42,240 median for Morgantown metro area; middle half earns $35,610 to $45,270
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 Northern West Virginia 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.