Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic pays $44,350 where the typical job pays $50,020 — $2.72 an hour apart. That is close enough to average that the interesting numbers on this page are the percentiles, not the median.

National employment is 150,470. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.

This work suits people who like setting a machine up properly and then producing consistently, which is a different skill from making one good part.

We carry no verified training length for Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The middle half runs $37,270 to $51,020 — $1,145 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 Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic earn under $37,270, which is $12,750 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.

Avoid it if you could not move should the plant go, because these jobs are concentrated where the plants are.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 150,470 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.

$37,270 to $51,020 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.

In cash terms the middle half of Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic runs $37,270 to $51,020 — $13,750 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $44,350.

Between $37,270 and $51,020 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $44,350. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $6,670; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $13,750.

There is $7,080 between $37,270 and $44,350, and $6,670 between $44,350 and $51,020. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic at the bottom of it.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $21.32 at the midpoint for Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, $17.91 at the 25th percentile and $24.52 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.