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Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Oklahoma and Texas
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $63,640 per year in Oklahoma. It is $47,830 per year in Texas. Oklahoma is 33.1% above Texas 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 1,390 wage and salary jobs in Oklahoma and 3,740 in Texas. 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