How much do Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Springfield, MA?

Percentile spread

For Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $38,780 and the 90th percentile is $79,700. The difference is $40,920, which is 77.7% 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 $45,280 to the 75th at $63,010, covers $17,730.

The mean annual wage is $56,160, which sits above the median of $52,660. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Springfield, MA median is 13.1% higher than the national median of $46,550 for Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $54,819, which is 17.8% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 3.4% higher than the Massachusetts median of $50,910.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Springfield, MA is 96.061, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $52,660 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $54,819 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

19 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. Springfield, MA ranks 2nd of 20 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).).

• Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT is 31 miles away, with a median of $50,130 and employment of 700. That median is 4.8% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $48,790, against $54,819 here.
• Worcester, MA is 38 miles away, with a median of $46,210 and employment of 310. That median is 12.2% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $45,073, against $54,819 here.
• Waterbury-Shelton, CT is 49 miles away, with a median of $41,050 and employment of 170. That median is 22% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $41,141, against $54,819 here.

Employment share

Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.17% of wage-and-salary employment in Springfield, MA (350 of 201,240). Nationally the occupation is 0.04% of employment (67,000 of 155,495,730). The local share is 4.04 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.