How much do Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing make in Longview, TX?

Percentile spread

For Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing, the published 10th percentile is $21,020 and the 90th percentile is $39,520. The difference is $18,500, which is 63.2% 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 $23,830 to the 75th at $33,830, covers $10,000.

The mean annual wage is $29,710, which sits above the median of $29,270. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Longview, TX median is 32.5% lower than the national median of $43,380 for Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing. In 2024 national prices the local median is $32,709, which is 24.6% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 13.5% lower than the Texas median of $33,840.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Longview, TX is 89.485, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $29,270 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing at $32,709 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

2 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing. Longview, TX ranks 3rd of 3 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).).

• Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 136 miles away, with a median of $39,200 and employment of 620. That median is 33.9% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $38,025, against $32,709 here.
• Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 186 miles away, with a median of $35,730 and employment of 380. That median is 22.1% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $36,227, against $32,709 here.

Employment share

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing accounts for 0.11% of wage-and-salary employment in Longview, TX (130 of 118,060). Nationally the occupation is 0.04% of employment (61,420 of 155,495,730). The local share is 2.79 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.