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Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Minnesota and West Virginia
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $58,260 per year in Minnesota. It is $37,920 per year in West Virginia. Minnesota is 53.6% above West Virginia 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 1,130 wage and salary jobs in Minnesota and 160 in West Virginia. 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.