How much do Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX?

Percentile spread

For Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $33,630 and the 90th percentile is $58,750. The difference is $25,120, which is 54.1% 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 $33,630 to the 75th at $52,040, covers $18,410.

The mean annual wage is $44,360, which sits below the median of $46,460. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX median is 5.3% lower than the national median of $49,080 for Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $47,106, which is 4% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 4.8% higher than the Texas median of $44,350.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 98.629, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $46,460 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $47,106 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (90 of 3,289,720). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (4,680 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.91 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.