How much do Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders make in El Paso, TX?

Percentile spread

For Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $16,960 and the 90th percentile is $29,090. The difference is $12,130, which is 52.6% 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 $23,070 to the 75th at $23,070, covers $0.

The mean annual wage is $24,240, which sits above the median of $23,070. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The El Paso, TX median is 35.3% lower than the national median of $35,650 for Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders. In 2024 national prices the local median is $25,658, which is 28% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 13.1% lower than the Texas median of $26,560.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for El Paso, TX is 89.912, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $23,070 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders at $25,658 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 Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders accounts for 0.05% of wage-and-salary employment in El Paso, TX (170 of 339,120). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (3,280 of 155,495,730). The local share is 23.77 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.