How much do Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Corpus Christi, TX?

Percentile spread

For Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $29,610 and the 90th percentile is $50,580. The difference is $20,970, which is 57.7% 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 $33,560 to the 75th at $49,170, covers $15,610.

The mean annual wage is $40,300, which sits above the median of $36,370. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Corpus Christi, TX median is 21.5% lower than the national median of $46,330 for Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $39,246, which is 15.3% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 14.9% lower than the Texas median of $42,720.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Corpus Christi, TX is 92.671, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $36,370 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $39,246 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

5 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. Corpus Christi, TX ranks 5th of 6 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX is 114 miles away, with a median of $33,840 and employment of 60. That median is 7% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $39,397, against $39,246 here.
• Brownsville-Harlingen, TX is 124 miles away, with a median of $36,610 and employment of 100. That median is 0.7% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $42,582, against $39,246 here.
• San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX is 129 miles away, with a median of $41,530 and employment of 780. That median is 14.2% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $43,847, against $39,246 here.

Employment share

Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.08% of wage-and-salary employment in Corpus Christi, TX (150 of 192,580). Nationally the occupation is 0.11% of employment (171,200 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.71 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.