How much do Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders make in Syracuse, NY?

Percentile spread

For Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $49,160 and the 90th percentile is $82,530. The difference is $33,370, which is 40.4% 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 $62,770 to the 75th at $82,530, covers $19,760.

The mean annual wage is $71,200, which sits below the median of $82,530. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Syracuse, NY median is 59.9% higher than the national median of $51,610 for Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. In 2024 national prices the local median is $86,200, which is 67% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 47.4% higher than the New York median of $55,990.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Syracuse, NY is 95.742, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $82,530 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at $86,200 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

14 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. Syracuse, NY ranks 1st of 15 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).).

• Utica-Rome, NY is 56 miles away, with a median of $51,320 and employment of 90. That median is 37.8% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $55,375, against $86,200 here.
• Rochester, NY is 70 miles away, with a median of $52,800 and employment of 230. That median is 36% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $54,413, against $86,200 here.
• Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY is 115 miles away, with a median of $51,150 and employment of 210. That median is 38% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $51,373, against $86,200 here.

Employment share

Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders accounts for 0.17% of wage-and-salary employment in Syracuse, NY (520 of 300,130). Nationally the occupation is 0.04% of employment (60,100 of 155,495,730). The local share is 4.48 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.