Occupation / job
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, 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
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pays $48,990, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $1,030 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.
National employment is 94,920. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. 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.
Who should not do this
Between $42,850 and $59,860 there is $17,010, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
The 25th percentile of $42,850 is only $7,170 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
Avoid it if you need a career shape; many of these roles are flat by design.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 94,920 figure counts people already working as Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $48,990 is a genuinely representative number for Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders and the main variable left is where you live.
The middle half of this field earns between $42,850 and $59,860. That is $17,010 of range, with $48,990 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $59,860. Reaching it from the $48,990 midpoint is $10,870 a year; reaching it from the $42,850 that the bottom quarter of Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earn is $17,010.
The distance from the midpoint up to $59,860 is $10,870 — well over the $6,140 down to $42,850. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $23.55 an hour. The quarters sit at $20.60 and $28.77, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $48,990 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $48,990 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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