Occupation / job
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$46,460 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders $296 a month below the middle of the American labour market — close enough that the spread below matters more to your outcome than the headline does.
Nationally 11,500 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
These roles suit people who want a fixed site, a known task and a shift that ends, and who would rather be reliable than promoted.
We carry no verified training length for Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders earn under $37,220 and a quarter over $53,610 — 1.4x, or $16,390 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
The 25th percentile is $37,220 — $17.89 an hour, and $12,800 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.
Avoid it if you need a career shape; many of these roles are flat by design.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 11,500 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $46,460 is a genuinely representative number for Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders and the main variable left is where you live.
Put in money rather than ratios: $37,220 at the 25th percentile, $46,460 at the midpoint, $53,610 at the 75th. $16,390 separates the quarter of Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $53,610. Reaching it from the $46,460 midpoint is $7,150 a year; reaching it from the $37,220 that the bottom quarter of Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders earn is $16,390.
There is $9,240 between $37,220 and $46,460, and $7,150 between $46,460 and $53,610. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders at the bottom of it.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $22.33 at the midpoint for Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders, $17.89 at the 25th percentile and $25.77 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders. The self-employed are excluded, so $46,460 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders, the hourly figure is $46,460 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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