How much do Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders make in Clarksville, TN-KY?

Percentile spread

For Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $33,840 and the 90th percentile is $58,130. The difference is $24,290, which is 53.2% 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 $36,940 to the 75th at $50,360, covers $13,420.

The mean annual wage is $44,470, which sits below the median of $45,670. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Clarksville, TN-KY median is 0.2% lower than the national median of $45,760 for Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. In 2024 national prices the local median is $50,216, which is 9.7% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 8.8% higher than the Tennessee median of $41,970.

Clarksville, TN-KY covers more than one state. The state comparison uses Tennessee, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Clarksville, TN-KY is 90.947, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $45,670 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at $50,216 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

10 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. Clarksville, TN-KY ranks 6th of 11 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).).

• Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN is 65 miles away, with a median of $45,760 and employment of 810. That median is 0.2% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $47,499, against $50,216 here.
• Evansville, IN is 94 miles away, with a median of $37,480. That median is 17.9% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $40,949, against $50,216 here.
• Jackson, TN is 96 miles away, with a median of $42,320 and employment of 100. That median is 7.3% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $49,484, against $50,216 here.

Employment share

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders accounts for 0.31% of wage-and-salary employment in Clarksville, TN-KY (320 of 103,220). Nationally the occupation is 0.04% of employment (58,770 of 155,495,730). The local share is 8.20 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.