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Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA and Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is $44,790 per year in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. It is $47,960 per year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA is 6.6% below Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-6063 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 820 wage and salary jobs in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA and 90 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. 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.