Highest-paying Cities for Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

The top 100 highest paying cities for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $56,760, Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana is the highest paying city for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders. It is followed by Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area, Maine (average annual salary $56,440). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in a specific city, use the links in the table.

Table 1. 100 Highest-paying cities/areas for Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana	$56,760	$28,060	140
2	Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area, Maine	$56,440	$40,680	260
3	Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$56,200	$30,650	40
4	Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$55,510	$30,840	130
5	Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area, Michigan	$55,320	$26,200	180
6	Northeast Minnesota nonmetropolitan area, Minnesota	$55,310	$29,230	60
7	Southwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area, Minnesota	$53,160	$33,540	280
8	Macon, Georgia	$53,150	$23,080	50
9	Barnstable Town, Massachusetts	$52,630	$26,500	40
10	Altoona, Pennsylvania	$50,740	$27,320	30
11	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine	$49,510	$27,790	70
12	Duluth, Wisconsin	$47,520	$30,170	70
13	Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas	$46,990	$28,950	300
14	Greenville, North Carolina	$46,580	$41,680	70
15	West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area, Illinois	$46,390	$31,840	150
16	Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area, Maine	$45,270	$28,390	70
17	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$44,890	$29,440	680
18	Elmira, New York	$44,880	$28,620	70
19	Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$44,180	$25,060	1,020
20	Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont	$43,930	$33,270	50
21	Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area, Missouri	$43,930	$22,900	270
22	Central Indiana nonmetropolitan area, Indiana	$43,730	$23,940	510
23	Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, New Jersey	$43,720	$25,020	60
24	Lincoln, Nebraska	$43,480	$26,570	180
25	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut	$43,430	$27,490	250
26	Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area, New Hampshire	$43,360	$33,100	30
27	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California	$43,250	$31,080	40
28	Coastal Oregon nonmetropolitan area, Oregon	$43,200	$29,500	n/a
29	Janesville, Wisconsin	$42,980	$32,380	60
30	Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area, Oregon	$42,950	$23,450	50
31	Lafayette, Louisiana	$42,820	$26,120	100
32	Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi	$42,770	$29,060	50
33	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida	$42,720	$26,720	100
34	Trenton-Ewing, New Jersey	$42,700	$21,770	150
35	Camden, New Jersey	$42,670	$28,990	360
36	Far Western North Dakota nonmetropolitan area, North Dakota	$42,610	$33,770	50
37	Eastern Connecticut nonmetropolitan area, Connecticut	$42,570	$33,380	30
38	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia	$42,510	$26,140	250
39	Ames, Iowa	$42,430	$25,800	80
40	Dayton, Ohio	$42,270	$26,950	220
41	Southern Oregon and Linn County nonmetropolitan area, Oregon	$42,080	$22,100	40
42	New Bedford, Massachusetts	$41,820	$25,510	60
43	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania	$41,780	$28,000	790
44	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Pennsylvania	$41,740	$25,950	210
45	Fond du Lac, Wisconsin	$41,690	$28,220	120
46	Akron, Ohio	$41,680	$27,050	190
47	East Central New York nonmetropolitan area, New York	$41,670	$27,900	40
48	Enid, Oklahoma	$41,560	$30,080	n/a
49	Utica-Rome, New York	$41,520	$23,900	50
50	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, California	$41,510	$25,220	70
51	Glens Falls, New York	$41,330	$28,460	120
52	Bowling Green, Kentucky	$41,270	$32,000	70
53	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, Louisiana	$41,170	$30,680	30
54	Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$40,840	$28,540	850
55	Central Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$40,810	$26,890	440
56	Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin	$40,800	$27,280	300
57	North Central Oregon nonmetropolitan area, Oregon	$40,800	$28,910	50
58	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, New Hampshire	$40,710	$29,220	50
59	Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin	$40,670	$30,850	1,730
60	Williamsport, Pennsylvania	$40,550	$27,950	40
61	Corpus Christi, Texas	$40,470	$29,420	50
62	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, New Hampshire	$40,340	$24,760	220
63	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, California	$40,250	$26,960	320
64	Chattanooga, Tennessee	$40,160	$26,260	360
65	Framingham, Massachusetts	$40,060	$30,510	110
66	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$40,040	$27,420	450
67	Racine, Wisconsin	$39,960	$28,690	110
68	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, Washington	$39,930	$31,500	n/a
69	Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, New Hampshire	$39,900	$23,520	100
70	Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska	$39,860	$29,370	190
71	Chambersburg-Waynesboro, Pennsylvania	$39,740	$28,190	110
72	La Crosse, Wisconsin	$39,710	$29,990	60
73	Owensboro, Kentucky	$39,590	$24,440	80
74	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio	$39,530	$26,930	1,200
75	Worcester, Massachusetts	$39,470	$26,490	440
76	Visalia-Porterville, California	$39,410	$28,030	n/a
77	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$39,400	$26,030	130
78	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$39,340	$25,790	170
79	Tyler, Texas	$39,250	$24,710	50
80	Richmond, Virginia	$39,120	$27,190	270
81	Lansing-East Lansing, Michigan	$39,000	$27,300	70
82	Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pennsylvania	$38,970	$27,360	80
83	Eau Claire, Wisconsin	$38,960	$28,660	140
84	Medford, Oregon	$38,850	$31,980	110
85	Eastern South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, South Dakota	$38,710	$27,630	470
86	Southwestern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, Wisconsin	$38,710	$26,970	730
87	Central Oregon nonmetropolitan area, Oregon	$38,700	$28,290	50
88	West Central-Southwest New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area, New Hampshire	$38,690	$30,720	80
89	Pee Dee South Carolina nonmetropolitan area, South Carolina	$38,680	$27,930	70
90	West Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, Wisconsin	$38,670	$27,420	340
91	Other New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area, New Hampshire	$38,640	$28,500	60
92	St Cloud, Minnesota	$38,500	$27,320	110
93	Odessa, Texas	$38,390	$25,760	220
94	Lake County-Kenosha County, Wisconsin	$38,310	$26,190	200
95	Nassau-Suffolk, New York	$38,300	$24,360	290
96	Boulder, Colorado	$38,290	$30,010	80
97	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida	$38,250	$27,250	80
98	Harrisonburg, Virginia	$38,170	$31,110	40
99	Athens-Clarke County, Georgia	$38,060	$20,950	40
100	Northeast South Carolina nonmetropolitan area, South Carolina	$38,040	$26,670	70

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