Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

$46,330 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic $307 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.

171,200 people are employed as Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.

These roles suit people who want a trade where the work is measurable to the thousandth and nobody can argue with the gauge.

No verified preparation time is on file for Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

The middle half runs $38,870 to $55,410 — $1,378 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.

A quarter of the field earns under $38,870 — $11,150 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.

Avoid it if the noise, the fume exposure and the standing are not acceptable long-run terms.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 171,200 people employed as Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

$38,870 to $55,410 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.

The middle half of this field earns between $38,870 and $55,410. That is $16,540 of range, with $46,330 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $55,410, the 75th percentile, is worth $9,080 a year more than the $46,330 midpoint and $16,540 more than the $38,870 a quarter of Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic settle for.

From $46,330 it is $7,460 down to the bottom quarter and $9,080 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic is $22.27 an hour. The quarters sit at $18.68 and $26.63, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.