SOC 53-7072 · Transportation and Material Moving Occupations · May 2025
How much do Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?
In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $35,360. The 10th percentile is $22,890 and the 90th percentile is $43,540. Employment is 70.
Median annual wage
$35,360
- 10th percentile
- $22,890
- 25th percentile
- $34,430
- Median
- $35,360
- 75th percentile
- $39,890
- 90th percentile
- $43,540
- Mean
- $35,440
Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

Percentile spread
For Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers, the published 10th percentile is $22,890 and the 90th percentile is $43,540. The difference is $20,650, which is 58.4% 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 $34,430 to the 75th at $39,890, covers $5,460.
The mean annual wage is $35,440, which sits above the median of $35,360. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.
National and state comparison
The San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR median is 42.8% lower than the national median of $61,770 for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers.
It is about the same as the Puerto Rico median of $35,370.
Price-adjusted pay
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.
Nearby metros
No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.
Employment share
Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR (70 of 690,810). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (9,780 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.61 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 San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR · Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers 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 Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?
In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $35,360. The 10th percentile is $22,890 and the 90th percentile is $43,540. Employment is 70.
How does that compare with the national median for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers?
The local median is 42.8% lower than the national median of $61,770.