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Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood pay in Alaska and South Carolina
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood is $52,680 per year in Alaska. It is $39,300 per year in South Carolina. Alaska is 34.0% above South Carolina on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-7041 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 100 wage and salary jobs in Alaska and 810 in South Carolina. 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.