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Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers pay in Georgia and Ohio
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers is $45,360 per year in Georgia. It is $61,440 per year in Ohio. Georgia is 26.2% below Ohio on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-6091 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 2,530 wage and salary jobs in Georgia and 380 in Ohio. 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.
