Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

$45,760 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders $355 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.

58,770 people are employed as Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.

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 Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The middle half runs $38,360 to $52,580 — $1,185 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 Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earn under $38,360, which is $11,660 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.

Avoid it if you would be unable to move should the plant close, or if repetitive work would grind you down.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 58,770 people employed as Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders; 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.

$38,360 to $52,580 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.

Put in money rather than ratios: $38,360 at the 25th percentile, $45,760 at the midpoint, $52,580 at the 75th. $14,220 separates the quarter of Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $38,360 and $52,580 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $45,760. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $6,820; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $14,220.

There is $7,400 between $38,360 and $45,760, and $6,820 between $45,760 and $52,580. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at the bottom of it.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $18.44 at the bottom quarter, $22.00 at the midpoint, $25.27 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.