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Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Alabama and Connecticut
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $35,000 per year in Alabama. It is $47,160 per year in Connecticut. Alabama is 25.8% below Connecticut on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-6062 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 160 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 50 in Connecticut. 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