SOC 51-4035 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is $62,530. The 10th percentile is $43,680 and the 90th percentile is $80,710. Employment is 110.

Median annual wage

$62,530

10th percentile
$43,680
25th percentile
$49,770
Median
$62,530
75th percentile
$64,520
90th percentile
$80,710
Mean
$60,660

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Percentile spread

For Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $43,680 and the 90th percentile is $80,710. The difference is $37,030, which is 59.2% 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 $49,770 to the 75th at $64,520, covers $14,750.

The mean annual wage is $60,660, which sits below the median of $62,530. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI median is 18.4% higher than the national median of $52,800 for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $59,654, which is 13% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 13.3% higher than the Minnesota median of $55,210.

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI covers more than one state. The state comparison uses Minnesota, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is 104.822, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $62,530 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $59,654 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 Milling and Planing Machine 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

Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI (110 of 1,951,650). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (12,460 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.70 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 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 Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is $62,530. The 10th percentile is $43,680 and the 90th percentile is $80,710. Employment is 110.

How does that compare with the national median for Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic?

The local median is 18.4% higher than the national median of $52,800.

What is Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic pay in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is 104.822, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $62,530 is $59,654. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.