SOC 51-9011 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $36,450. The 10th percentile is $26,300 and the 90th percentile is $55,390. Employment is 2,300.

Median annual wage

$36,450

10th percentile
$26,300
25th percentile
$27,770
Median
$36,450
75th percentile
$45,570
90th percentile
$55,390
Mean
$38,250

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Percentile spread

For Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $26,300 and the 90th percentile is $55,390. The difference is $29,090, which is 79.8% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $27,770 to the 75th at $45,570, covers $17,800.

The mean annual wage is $38,250, which sits above the median of $36,450. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR median is 37.2% lower than the national median of $58,040 for Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders.

It is about the same as the Puerto Rico median of $36,450.

Price-adjusted pay

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders accounts for 0.33% of wage-and-salary employment in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR (2,300 of 690,810). Nationally the occupation is 0.09% of employment (139,630 of 155,495,730). The local share is 3.71 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

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Questions this page answers

How much do Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $36,450. The 10th percentile is $26,300 and the 90th percentile is $55,390. Employment is 2,300.

How does that compare with the national median for Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders?

The local median is 37.2% lower than the national median of $58,040.