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Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Virginia and Wyoming
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $59,480 per year in Virginia. It is $108,900 per year in Wyoming. Virginia is 45.4% below Wyoming on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-9012 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 2,130 wage and salary jobs in Virginia and 410 in Wyoming. 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