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Tool and Die Makers · SOC 51-4111

Tool and Die Makers Salary in the Rochester Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Rochester, NY metro area

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

Median annual wage$60,820
Median hourly wage$29.24

Tool and Die Makers in the Rochester, NY metro area earned a median of $60,820 per year ($29.24 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $47,960 at the 10th percentile to $86,600 at the 90th. BLS estimates 280 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Tool and Die Makers in the Rochester metro area earn more than $60,820 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $53,350 and $79,470.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$47,960$53,350$60,820$79,470$86,600
Hourly$23.06$25.65$29.24$38.21$41.63

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

  • Rochester metro areathis metro area
    $60,820
  • New Yorkstate (NY)
    $68,080
  • United Statesnational
    $64,050

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

The median here is −11% vs New York overall and −5% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$36,400$63,217$90,033$116,850Ponce, PR — $36,400San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $37,800Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $37,910El Paso, TX — $45,800Morristown, TN — $48,400Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $48,680Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $48,730Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $49,690Williamsport, PA — $49,910Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $50,320Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $50,410Modesto, CA — $52,300Rockford, IL — $52,900Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $53,330Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $53,720Tucson, AZ — $54,920Joplin, MO-KS — $55,930Johnson City, TN — $56,460Jackson, TN — $57,240Winston-Salem, NC — $57,510Gainesville, GA — $57,560Champaign-Urbana, IL — $58,000Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $58,110Springfield, MO — $58,540Mansfield, OH — $58,710Canton-Massillon, OH — $59,000Columbus, OH — $59,350St. Louis, MO-IL — $59,610Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $59,730Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $59,910Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $59,970Springfield, OH — $60,220Lancaster, PA — $60,280Decatur, AL — $60,410North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $60,420Youngstown-Warren, OH — $60,570Raleigh-Cary, NC — $60,590Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $60,760Rochester, NY — $60,820Monroe, MI — $60,840Evansville, IN — $60,890Asheville, NC — $60,950Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $61,020Greensboro-High Point, NC — $61,090Pittsburgh, PA — $61,160Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $61,180Ann Arbor, MI — $61,250Muncie, IN — $61,310Fond du Lac, WI — $61,330Fort Wayne, IN — $61,340Reno, NV — $61,350Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $61,370Spartanburg, SC — $61,420Akron, OH — $61,440Lebanon, PA — $61,570Janesville-Beloit, WI — $61,670Niles, MI — $61,690Chattanooga, TN-GA — $61,720South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $61,760Worcester, MA — $61,770Montgomery, AL — $61,790Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $61,940Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $62,040Battle Creek, MI — $62,440Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $62,440Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $62,540Kenosha, WI — $62,550Springfield, MA — $62,620Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $62,690Peoria, IL — $62,950Cedar Rapids, IA — $63,140Knoxville, TN — $63,180Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $63,230Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $63,240Eau Claire, WI — $63,250Traverse City, MI — $63,260Dubuque, IA — $63,290Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $63,330Jackson, MI — $63,410Wausau, WI — $63,570Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $63,720Owensboro, KY — $63,720Erie, PA — $63,740Corpus Christi, TX — $63,890Syracuse, NY — $64,010Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $64,050Cleveland, OH — $64,070Green Bay, WI — $64,110Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $64,270Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $64,270Bloomington, IL — $64,320Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $64,370Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $64,400Decatur, IL — $64,410Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $64,460Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $64,530Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $64,650Birmingham, AL — $64,800Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $64,920La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $65,230Reading, PA — $65,440Sandusky, OH — $65,460Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $65,590Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $65,660Madison, WI — $65,900Manchester-Nashua, NH — $66,140Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $66,190San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $66,240York-Hanover, PA — $66,320Omaha, NE-IA — $66,420Toledo, OH — $66,630Rochester, MN — $66,680Tulsa, OK — $66,700Binghamton, NY — $66,880Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA — $67,130Michigan City-La Porte, IN — $67,650Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $67,830Richmond, VA — $68,000Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $68,120Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $68,290Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $69,210Bay City, MI — $69,240Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $69,570Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI — $69,690Bowling Green, KY — $69,790Columbia, SC — $70,620Columbus, IN — $71,180Saginaw, MI — $71,910Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $72,390Appleton, WI — $73,010Huntsville, AL — $73,050Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $73,120Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $73,170Jacksonville, FL — $73,250Oklahoma City, OK — $73,760Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $74,070Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $74,320Jackson, MS — $74,560Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $74,840Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $75,250Sheboygan, WI — $75,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $76,380Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $76,420Savannah, GA — $77,040New Haven, CT — $77,410Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $77,620Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $77,780Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $78,020Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $78,060Burlington, NC — $78,140Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $78,960Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $79,020Ogden, UT — $79,480Portland-South Portland, ME — $79,910Lincoln, NE — $80,030Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $80,060Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $81,510Stockton-Lodi, CA — $82,820Lexington-Fayette, KY — $83,510Wichita, KS — $83,890Lima, OH — $84,730San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $85,010Kansas City, MO-KS — $85,740Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $87,240San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $97,560Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $116,850

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 Rochester metro area has the 128th-highest published median for this occupation among the 166 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 tool and die makers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Rochester metro areathis page
    $60,820
  • Albany metro area
    $87,240
  • Buffalo metro area
    $81,510
  • New York metro area
    $76,380
  • Binghamton metro area
    $66,880
  • Syracuse metro area
    $64,010

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$43,090Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$48,370First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$75,460Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$45,010Machinists$55,560Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$43,780

Highest-paying metro areas for tool and die makerss · Highest-paying occupations in Rochester 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.