Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders

The $43,220 midpoint for Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders sits $6,800 under the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is a real living across much of the country and a thin one in expensive metros, so geography decides this more than seniority does.

379,060 people work as Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.

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 Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter of Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders earn under $36,850 and a quarter over $49,070: 1.3x, and $12,220 between the ends. That is a narrow band — enough room to be paid better than average, not enough for the occupation to be a route to a materially different income.

A quarter of the field earns under $36,850 — $13,170 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 you would be unable to move should the plant close, or if repetitive work would grind you down.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 379,060 figure counts people already working as Packaging and Filling Machine 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.

At 1.3x between $36,850 and $49,070, this is a narrow distribution. $43,220 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.

Put in money rather than ratios: $36,850 at the 25th percentile, $43,220 at the midpoint, $49,070 at the 75th. $12,220 separates the quarter of Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $49,070, the 75th percentile, is worth $5,850 a year more than the $43,220 midpoint and $12,220 more than the $36,850 a quarter of Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders settle for.

There is $6,370 between $36,850 and $43,220, and $5,850 between $43,220 and $49,070. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders at the bottom of it.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders is $20.77 an hour. The quarters sit at $17.71 and $23.59, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.