How much do Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic make in Wilmington, NC?

Percentile spread

For Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, the published 10th percentile is $33,790 and the 90th percentile is $56,670. The difference is $22,880, which is 64.3% 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 $33,820 to the 75th at $43,870, covers $10,050.

The mean annual wage is $39,540, which sits above the median of $35,580. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Wilmington, NC median is 19.8% lower than the national median of $44,350 for Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. In 2024 national prices the local median is $36,900, which is 16.8% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 14.5% lower than the North Carolina median of $41,630.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Wilmington, NC is 96.422, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $35,580 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at $36,900 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 Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. Wilmington, NC ranks 10th 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).).

• Greenville, NC is 100 miles away, with a median of $33,190 and employment of 50. That median is 6.7% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $37,544, against $36,900 here.
• Florence, SC is 101 miles away, with a median of $45,820 and employment of 30. That median is 28.8% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $52,804, against $36,900 here.
• Raleigh-Cary, NC is 107 miles away, with a median of $38,420 and employment of 410. That median is 8% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $39,141, against $36,900 here.

Employment share

Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic accounts for 0.03% of wage-and-salary employment in Wilmington, NC (50 of 191,280). Nationally the occupation is 0.10% of employment (150,470 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.27 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.