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Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Cedar Rapids, IA and Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $83,470 per year in Cedar Rapids, IA. It is $58,050 per year in Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI. Cedar Rapids, IA is 43.8% above Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-9196 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 260 wage and salary jobs in Cedar Rapids, IA and 380 in Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI. 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.