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Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators · SOC 47-2071

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators Salary in the Watertown Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro area

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

Median annual wage$46,390
Median hourly wage$22.31

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators in the Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro area earned a median of $46,390 per year ($22.31 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $46,390 at the 10th percentile to $81,350 at the 90th. BLS estimates 90 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators in the Watertown metro area earn more than $46,390 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $46,390 and $60,810.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$46,390$46,390$46,390$60,810$81,350
Hourly$22.31$22.31$22.31$29.24$39.11

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

  • Watertown metro areathis metro area
    $46,390
  • New Yorkstate (NY)
    $62,760
  • United Statesnational
    $53,340

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

The median here is −26% vs New York overall and −13% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$30,190$62,340$94,490$126,640San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $30,190Johnson City, TN — $35,710Cleveland, TN — $35,940Auburn-Opelika, AL — $36,380Fort Smith, AR-OK — $37,210Tuscaloosa, AL — $37,340Tallahassee, FL — $37,440Tyler, TX — $37,640Chattanooga, TN-GA — $38,510Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $39,120Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $39,130El Paso, TX — $39,340Corpus Christi, TX — $39,360Montgomery, AL — $40,000Knoxville, TN — $40,540McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $42,700College Station-Bryan, TX — $43,450Farmington, NM — $43,780Savannah, GA — $43,790Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $44,180Omaha, NE-IA — $44,720Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $44,760Waco, TX — $45,230Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $45,260Las Cruces, NM — $45,450Albuquerque, NM — $45,550Lawton, OK — $45,660Wichita, KS — $45,900Gainesville, FL — $45,930Columbia, SC — $45,960Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $46,120Ogden, UT — $46,120Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $46,260Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $46,270Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $46,320Watertown-Fort Drum, NY — $46,390Jackson, MS — $46,430Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $46,550Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $46,550Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $46,790Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $46,810Springfield, MO — $46,860San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $46,960Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $46,970Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $47,040Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $47,050Wilmington, NC — $47,160Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $47,230Jacksonville, FL — $47,300Lubbock, TX — $47,340Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $47,390Winchester, VA-WV — $47,530Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $47,540Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $47,610Roanoke, VA — $47,620Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $47,730Fayetteville, NC — $47,820Birmingham, AL — $48,030Oklahoma City, OK — $48,110Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $48,190Vineland, NJ — $48,250North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $48,370Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $48,440Raleigh-Cary, NC — $48,590Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $48,720New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $48,750Huntsville, AL — $48,840Billings, MT — $48,890Battle Creek, MI — $49,050Naples-Marco Island, FL — $49,110Winston-Salem, NC — $49,250Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $49,450Pittsburgh, PA — $49,610Odessa, TX — $49,700Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $49,740Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $49,850Richmond, VA — $49,880Greensboro-High Point, NC — $49,920Santa Fe, NM — $50,040Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $50,070Clarksville, TN-KY — $50,280Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $50,280Green Bay, WI — $50,390Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $50,390Evansville, IN — $50,420Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $50,640Bozeman, MT — $50,650Asheville, NC — $50,720Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $50,860Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $51,310Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $51,400Binghamton, NY — $52,000Lincoln, NE — $52,790Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $54,130Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $54,800Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $54,810Colorado Springs, CO — $54,830Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $55,690Rochester, NY — $56,530Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $57,140South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $57,510Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $57,620Cheyenne, WY — $57,680Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $57,910Toledo, OH — $58,080Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $58,120Syracuse, NY — $58,350Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $58,800Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $58,840Lancaster, PA — $59,160Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $59,620Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $59,780Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $59,800Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $59,910Portland-South Portland, ME — $60,060Cleveland, OH — $60,320Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $60,680Jefferson City, MO — $60,850Salem, OR — $61,210Utica-Rome, NY — $61,780Manchester-Nashua, NH — $62,140Bend, OR — $62,180Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $62,460Columbus, OH — $62,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $62,780Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $62,900Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $63,050Yakima, WA — $63,160Reno, NV — $63,550Akron, OH — $64,000Greeley, CO — $64,050Albany, OR — $64,690San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $64,870Baton Rouge, LA — $65,610Kansas City, MO-KS — $66,210Duluth, MN-WI — $68,180Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $68,520Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $70,530Springfield, IL — $71,670Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $72,080Eugene-Springfield, OR — $72,920St. Joseph, MO-KS — $74,760Youngstown-Warren, OH — $74,950St. Louis, MO-IL — $76,800Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $77,480Appleton, WI — $78,260Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $80,340Rochester, MN — $82,730Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $83,370Anchorage, AK — $84,190Madison, WI — $93,610Fort Wayne, IN — $95,510Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $96,590San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $104,530Urban Honolulu, HI — $111,360Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $126,640

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 Watertown metro area has the 121st-highest published median for this occupation among the 156 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 New York

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Watertown metro areathis page
    $46,390
  • New York metro area
    $62,780
  • Utica metro area
    $61,780
  • Albany metro area
    $59,780
  • Syracuse metro area
    $58,350
  • Buffalo metro area
    $57,910
  • Kiryas Joel metro area
    $57,140

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:

Highway Maintenance Workers$48,990Construction Laborers$48,450Carpenters$57,840First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$70,310Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$62,340Electricians$78,550

Highest-paying metro areas for paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operatorss · Highest-paying occupations in Watertown 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.