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Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT and Wilmington, NC
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $44,050 per year in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT. It is $63,550 per year in Wilmington, NC. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT is 30.7% below Wilmington, NC on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-9032 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 110 wage and salary jobs in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT and 100 in Wilmington, NC. 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.