Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing Salary in the US
A woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earns a national median of $43,380 a year (mean $43,570) — BLS OEWS May 2025, ranked #685 of 825.
How much does a woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earn in the US?
A woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing in the United States earns a median of $43,380 a year (mean $43,570), per BLS OEWS May 2025. That is 15% below the US all-occupations median of $50,980. About 61,420 people work in this occupation (SOC 51-7042), ranked #685 of 825 by national median pay. Updated annually from BLS OEWS.
Median
$43,380
per year
Mean
$43,570
per year
Employment
61,420
US workers
National rank
#685
of 825 by median
What a woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earns in the US
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 national estimates, a woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing (SOC 51-7042) earns a median annual wage of $43,380 and a mean (average) of $43,570. The median is the midpoint — half of woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earn more and half earn less — and is 15% 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 woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing in the US?
- The BLS OEWS May 2025 national annual median wage for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing is $43,380, and the mean (average) is $43,570. The median is the midpoint — half of woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earn more and half earn less.
- How does woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing pay compare to the US average?
- At $43,380, a woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing earns 15% below the US all-occupations median of $50,980 (BLS OEWS May 2025). The all-occupations US median is $50,980.
- How many woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing are employed in the US?
- BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates about 61,420 woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing employed nationally (SOC 51-7042), across all industries.
- Where does this woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing 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 51-7042. 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 51-7042 · Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
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