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Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service pay in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA and Springfield, MA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service is $40,660 per year in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. It is $51,490 per year in Springfield, MA. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA is 21.0% below Springfield, MA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-9051 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 340 wage and salary jobs in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA and 60 in Springfield, MA. 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.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings