SOC 51-6091 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers make in Mobile, AL?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers in Mobile, AL is $63,900. The 10th percentile is $51,930 and the 90th percentile is $70,390. Employment is 130.

Median annual wage

$63,900

10th percentile
$51,930
25th percentile
$63,690
Median
$63,900
75th percentile
$63,900
90th percentile
$70,390
Mean
$63,300

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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A welder at a workshop bench. Photograph by ABDULIUMAR. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Percentile spread

For Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers, the published 10th percentile is $51,930 and the 90th percentile is $70,390. The difference is $18,460, which is 28.9% 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 $63,690 to the 75th at $63,900, covers $210.

The mean annual wage is $63,300, which sits below the median of $63,900. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Mobile, AL median is 37.9% higher than the national median of $46,350 for Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $72,533, which is 56.5% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 6.3% higher than the Alabama median of $60,100.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Mobile, AL is 88.098, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $63,900 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers at $72,533 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 Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers accounts for 0.08% of wage-and-salary employment in Mobile, AL (130 of 172,550). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (12,850 of 155,495,730). The local share is 9.12 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.

Highest-paying jobs in Mobile, AL · Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers make in Mobile, AL?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers in Mobile, AL is $63,900. The 10th percentile is $51,930 and the 90th percentile is $70,390. Employment is 130.

How does that compare with the national median for Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers?

The local median is 37.9% higher than the national median of $46,350.

What is Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers pay in Mobile, AL after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Mobile, AL is 88.098, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $63,900 is $72,533. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.