Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operator, and Tender Salary in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas

The annual salary statistics of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas is shown in Table 1. The wage data of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Fort Worth-Arlington is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2019 and published in April 2020 [1].

Table 1. Annual Salary of Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas

Percentile BracketAverage Annual Salary
10th Percentile Wage
$25,060
25th Percentile Wage
$30,570
50th Percentile Wage
$44,180
75th Percentile Wage
$60,260
90th Percentile Wage
$71,390

Table 1 shows the average annual salary for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $71,390. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $44,180. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $25,060.

Median salary trend

The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders from 2012 to 2017.

YearMedian SalaryYearly Growth5-Year Growth
2017
$44,180
31.58% 40.77%
2016
$30,230
-3.31% -
2015
$31,230
2.24% -
2014
$30,530
3.70% -
2013
$29,400
10.99% -
2012
$26,170
- -

Table 2. Compare Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operator, and Tender Salary in Fort Worth-Arlington with Other Texas Cities

From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $44,180 in Fort Worth-Arlington is in the middle of salary range for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in state of Texas. In comparison, the annual salary of coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Fort Worth-Arlington is 20.4 percent (20.4%) lower than that in the highest paying Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area and 46.3 percent (46.3%) higher than that in the lowest paying El Paso.

Cities/Areas Median Annual Salary
Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$55,510
Beaumont-Port Arthur
$46,990
Fort Worth-Arlington
$44,180
Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$40,810
Corpus Christi
$40,470
Tyler
$39,250
Odessa
$38,390
Longview
$38,000
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
$37,680
Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood
$37,620
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
$37,000
Abilene
$36,650
Midland
$35,180
San Angelo
$35,090
Gulf Coast Texas nonmetropolitan area
$35,070
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
$34,910
Wichita Falls
$34,150
Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$33,610
North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$32,820
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
$32,100
College Station-Bryan
$31,830
Amarillo
$31,390
Dallas-Plano-Irving
$31,290
Sherman-Denison
$31,260
Brownsville-Harlingen
$30,970
San Antonio-New Braunfels
$30,940
Lubbock
$30,270
Victoria
$28,350
Waco
$27,930
Texarkana-Texarkana
$26,460
Southern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$24,850
El Paso
$23,730