Highest-paying Cities for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

The top 100 highest paying cities for welding, soldering, and brazing 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 welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $88,790, Baltimore-Towson, Maryland is the highest paying city for welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders. It is followed by Wheeling, West Virginia (average annual salary $82,710). 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 welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders in a specific city, use the links in the table.

Table 1. 100 Highest-paying cities/areas for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$88,790	$36,420	60
2	Wheeling, West Virginia	$82,710	$80,860	40
3	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, Connecticut	$65,370	$35,970	80
4	Wichita, Kansas	$65,020	$39,110	50
5	Alaska nonmetropolitan area, Alaska	$64,490	$49,570	60
6	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, Massachusetts	$58,960	$36,670	n/a
7	Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California	$57,720	$37,110	90
8	Jackson, Mississippi	$56,520	$38,190	40
9	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas	$56,290	$40,510	600
10	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California	$55,000	$39,900	570
11	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$54,390	$40,260	450
12	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, California	$54,090	$25,330	60
13	Peabody, Massachusetts	$53,800	$35,540	30
14	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado	$53,700	$35,310	70
15	Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana	$53,680	$38,900	160
16	Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi	$53,380	$19,520	310
17	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington	$53,190	$32,990	90
18	Muncie, Indiana	$52,750	$34,400	60
19	Eastern South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, South Dakota	$52,270	$43,490	180
20	Dubuque, Iowa	$52,240	$39,650	100
21	Fresno, California	$51,590	$35,400	40
22	Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Virginia	$51,530	$34,300	140
23	San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas	$51,390	$37,710	60
24	Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin	$50,530	$29,770	200
25	Reno-Sparks, Nevada	$50,510	$31,680	30
26	Lafayette, Indiana	$50,450	$26,960	n/a
27	Erie, Pennsylvania	$50,320	$32,010	60
28	Wausau, Wisconsin	$50,100	$37,360	70
29	Greeley, Colorado	$50,100	$36,050	40
30	Far Western Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$50,100	$32,850	110
31	Anchorage, Alaska	$49,920	$48,510	40
32	Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska	$49,840	$40,560	140
33	Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa	$49,660	$38,950	220
34	Muskegon-Norton Shores, Michigan	$49,630	$36,120	90
35	Jonesboro, Arkansas	$49,380	$33,070	40
36	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, New York	$49,280	$35,090	60
37	South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, Wisconsin	$48,960	$37,230	310
38	South Bend-Mishawaka, Michigan	$48,940	$36,720	50
39	Sioux City, South Dakota	$48,920	$41,220	100
40	Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$48,920	$40,260	370
41	Grand Island, Nebraska	$48,900	$39,110	80
42	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa	$48,870	$43,650	100
43	Ogden-Clearfield, Utah	$48,610	$37,400	40
44	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington	$48,590	$36,530	90
45	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$48,540	$31,210	400
46	Waco, Texas	$48,440	$39,530	40
47	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$48,420	$32,260	530
48	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania	$48,340	$30,900	30
49	Far Western North Dakota nonmetropolitan area, North Dakota	$48,340	$42,000	n/a
50	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	$48,300	$36,600	60
51	East Central North Dakota nonmetropolitan area, North Dakota	$48,290	$32,360	n/a
52	Las Vegas-Paradise, Nevada	$47,920	$28,870	50
53	Odessa, Texas	$47,910	$33,490	60
54	Columbus, Indiana	$47,860	$40,750	80
55	Columbus, Ohio	$47,810	$35,940	340
56	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	$47,740	$30,440	70
57	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa	$47,430	$38,920	60
58	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, South Carolina	$47,410	$38,460	40
59	Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$47,360	$40,100	150
60	Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$47,330	$36,910	40
61	Southwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area, Minnesota	$47,330	$36,360	60
62	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$47,280	$29,530	270
63	New Haven, Connecticut	$47,240	$37,950	60
64	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California	$47,230	$32,640	1,020
65	Southeast Minnesota nonmetropolitan area, Minnesota	$47,160	$37,550	30
66	Springfield, Massachusetts	$46,890	$34,110	60
67	Honolulu, Hawaii	$46,790	$35,240	70
68	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California	$46,670	$33,190	120
69	Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area, Minnesota	$46,570	$39,650	40
70	Tucson, Arizona	$46,560	$37,500	40
71	Tuscaloosa, Alabama	$46,540	$35,490	50
72	Worcester, Massachusetts	$46,520	$37,840	100
73	New Iberia nonmetropolitan area, Louisiana	$46,420	$36,810	80
74	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas	$46,400	$36,580	120
75	Spartanburg, South Carolina	$46,190	$30,600	120
76	North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$46,150	$33,040	60
77	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia	$46,050	$39,190	80
78	West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$46,030	$32,100	270
79	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia	$46,030	$35,770	50
80	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Michigan	$46,020	$28,880	410
81	Akron, Ohio	$45,950	$35,960	150
82	Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio	$45,930	$34,780	230
83	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	$45,910	$34,000	40
84	Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin	$45,890	$37,660	40
85	Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area, Iowa	$45,890	$35,830	170
86	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California	$45,860	$33,010	240
87	Northeastern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$45,860	$36,180	110
88	St George, Utah	$45,850	$36,360	30
89	West Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, Arkansas	$45,830	$35,020	50
90	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, New Hampshire	$45,760	$32,920	50
91	Dayton, Ohio	$45,740	$38,990	100
92	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California	$45,710	$32,790	200
93	New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York	$45,600	$32,150	350
94	Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina	$45,500	$32,080	40
95	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine	$45,440	$35,370	n/a
96	Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, Massachusetts	$45,270	$34,850	n/a
97	Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area, Michigan	$45,250	$35,100	40
98	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, California	$45,140	$33,950	30
99	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	$45,100	$33,780	80
100	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona	$44,930	$28,730	380

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