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Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic pay in Alabama and West Virginia
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic is $43,800 per year in Alabama. It is $76,080 per year in West Virginia. Alabama is 42.4% below West Virginia on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-4081 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 1,680 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 1,920 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.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings