Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Salary in the US
A heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earns a national median of $48,750 a year (mean $50,450) — BLS OEWS May 2025, ranked #576 of 825.
How much does a heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earn in the US?
A heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in the United States earns a median of $48,750 a year (mean $50,450), per BLS OEWS May 2025. That is 4% below the US all-occupations median of $50,980. About 14,000 people work in this occupation (SOC 51-4191), ranked #576 of 825 by national median pay. Updated annually from BLS OEWS.
Median
$48,750
per year
Mean
$50,450
per year
Employment
14,000
US workers
National rank
#576
of 825 by median
What a heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earns in the US
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 national estimates, a heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic (SOC 51-4191) earns a median annual wage of $48,750 and a mean (average) of $50,450. The median is the midpoint — half of heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earn more and half earn less — and is 4% below the US all-occupations median of $50,980. The mean is higher than the median when a minority of very high earners pull the average up.
Note: BLS top-codes any annual wage at or above $239,200/year, so occupations at that ceiling share the same figure.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the average salary for a heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in the US?
- The BLS OEWS May 2025 national annual median wage for heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $48,750, and the mean (average) is $50,450. The median is the midpoint — half of heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earn more and half earn less.
- How does heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic pay compare to the US average?
- At $48,750, a heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earns 4% below the US all-occupations median of $50,980 (BLS OEWS May 2025). The all-occupations US median is $50,980.
- How many heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic are employed in the US?
- BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates about 14,000 heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic employed nationally (SOC 51-4191), across all industries.
- Where does this heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic salary data come from?
- From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2025 national release — cross-industry, all-ownership estimates, SOC code 51-4191. As US federal government work it is public domain. GeraJobs publishes the figures verbatim; suppressed cells are shown as "—", never estimated.
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Data source
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · May 2025 national estimates · SOC 51-4191 · Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
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