SOC 51-9151 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $34,900. The 10th percentile is $32,230 and the 90th percentile is $47,330. Employment is 70.

Median annual wage

$34,900

10th percentile
$32,230
25th percentile
$32,230
Median
$34,900
75th percentile
$39,180
90th percentile
$47,330
Mean
$37,290

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Percentile spread

For Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators, the published 10th percentile is $32,230 and the 90th percentile is $47,330. The difference is $15,100, which is 43.3% 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 $32,230 to the 75th at $39,180, covers $6,950.

The mean annual wage is $37,290, which sits above the median of $34,900. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX median is 14.1% lower than the national median of $40,610 for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators. In 2024 national prices the local median is $33,854, which is 16.6% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 2.9% lower than the Texas median of $35,950.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $34,900 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators at $33,854 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 Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (70 of 4,049,800). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (4,800 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.56 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators 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 Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $34,900. The 10th percentile is $32,230 and the 90th percentile is $47,330. Employment is 70.

How does that compare with the national median for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators?

The local median is 14.1% lower than the national median of $40,610.

What is Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $34,900 is $33,854. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.