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Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC and Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $49,390 per year in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC. It is $38,460 per year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC is 28.4% above Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 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 230 wage and salary jobs in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC and 80 in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. 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.