How much do Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Percentile spread

For Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $34,940 and the 90th percentile is $65,770. The difference is $30,830, which is 79.9% 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 $35,630 to the 75th at $59,130, covers $23,500.

The mean annual wage is $46,840, which sits above the median of $38,580. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ median is 21.3% lower than the national median of $49,030 for Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $34,274, which is 30.1% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 31.5% lower than the New York median of $56,350.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ covers more than one state. The state comparison uses New York, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 112.563, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $38,580 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $34,274 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

3 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ ranks 4th of 4 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).).

• Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD is 98 miles away, with a median of $63,880 and employment of 190. That median is 65.6% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $62,289, against $34,274 here.
• Providence-Warwick, RI-MA is 147 miles away, with a median of $43,740 and employment of 70. That median is 13.4% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $42,978, against $34,274 here.
• Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is 189 miles away, with a median of $58,980 and employment of 80. That median is 52.9% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $54,477, against $34,274 here.

Employment share

Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (200 of 9,492,000). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (8,930 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.37 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.