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Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Illinois and Wyoming
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $48,290 per year in Illinois. It is $71,300 per year in Wyoming. Illinois is 32.3% below Wyoming on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-9021 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 710 wage and salary jobs in Illinois and 170 in Wyoming. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.