A percentile is a position in the BLS distribution. It is not a promised offer or career forecast.
10th
$31,750
25th
$36,090
Median
$40,960
75th
$47,910
90th
$57,960
National context
What changes around the median
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer ranked 47 of 54 detailed office and administrative support occupations with a published annual median. The national annual mean was 5.5% above the median, showing why one center point does not describe the full distribution.
Area estimates below use the same SOC code and release. They do not adjust for cost of living, experience, benefits, hours, employer mix, or remote-work policy.
Published metro rows
Highest medians for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
Ranked only among metros with a published annual median. No cost-of-living adjustment.
Use the published range, job count, place pattern, and survey limits as separate facts. The guide stays tied to SOC 43-9071 and the May 2025 BLS release.
Questions, answered
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer: common wage questions
What is the median wage for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published a U.S. median of $40,960 per year for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer. It is an occupation estimate, not a promised offer or an individual's pay.
How many Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs does BLS estimate nationally?
BLS published an employment estimate of 25,130 wage and salary jobs. The estimate is not a count of current openings and excludes the self-employed.
Why is the mean wage different from the median for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer?
The published annual mean is 5.5% above the median. The mean uses every published wage value, while the median marks the middle of the distribution.
Which metro has the highest published median for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer?
From market data to your evidence
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What the national Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median says
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the U.S. median for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer at $40,960 per year. Median means the middle. Half of the wage values used for this estimate fall below that point. Half fall above it. The median is not one worker's pay. It is not a job offer. It is one clear mark for the middle of a broad national pay range.
BLS also lists 25,130 wage and salary jobs for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer. That count covers jobs in the survey's scope. It does not count open job ads. It also leaves out people who work for themselves. The wage and job counts share the same May 2025 reference point, so they can be read together without mixing time periods.
The Office Machine Operators, Except Computer mean of $43,220 per year is 5.5% above the $40,960 median on the same published median. Mean means BLS adds the wage values and divides the total by the number of jobs behind the estimate. A gap between mean and median shows that the shape is not even. It does not explain the cause of the gap.
BLS names this record Office Machine Operators, Except Computer and gives it SOC 43-9071. The two-part code is the stable key for this page. A role with a close name keeps a different code, wage row, job count, and area pattern. WageScope never joins two SOC records because their words sound alike.
For SOC 43-9071, the U.S. row reports 25,130 wage and salary jobs. Its annual median is $40,960 per year. Its matching mean is $43,220 per year. These facts come from one national row and one May 2025 release.
The same SOC 43-9071 appears in 48 state or territory rows, 97 metro rows, and 9 nonmetro rows in this artifact. A missing local row stays missing. The national record does not fill it, and a nearby SOC does not stand in for it.
Read the Office Machine Operators, Except Computer wage ladder from low to high
The 10th percentile is $31,750 per year. The 25th percentile is $36,090 per year. The median is $40,960 per year. The 75th percentile is $47,910 per year. The 90th percentile is $57,960 per year. Each point marks a place in the same national wage spread.
A percentile is a rank point. It is not a career step. For example, the 10th percentile means 10% of wage values are at or below that mark. It does not mean a new worker starts there. The 90th percentile means 90% are at or below that mark. It does not mean a worker can reach it after a set number of years.
The middle half runs from $36,090 to $47,910 per year. That span is $11,820. The full 10th-to-90th span is $26,210. These spans show why one median cannot stand in for every Office Machine Operators, Except Computer job.
What the gaps around the Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median show
The median is 29.0% above the 10th percentile. The 90th percentile is 41.5% above the median. The two sides do not have to match. A wider upper side can pull the mean up. A wider lower side can pull it down. The data shows the shape, but not the reason for that shape.
The 25th-to-median step is $4,870 per year. The median-to-75th step is $6,950 per year. These two steps give a closer look at the middle half. They are often more useful than a single top-to-bottom gap because they keep the center in view.
Use this ladder as a fact check when you read a job post. A posted range can sit below, near, or above these BLS marks. That does not make the post wrong. A job may differ by place, hours, level, field, employer, or work rules. Keep the posted range tied to that listing. Keep the BLS range tied to the whole occupation.
Metro areas with the highest published Office Machine Operators, Except Computer medians
WageScope found 95 metro rows with the same published annual median for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer. It sorts only those rows. It does not fill a blank row. It does not turn a blank into zero. The first six rows below have the highest published medians in this release. The list is a wage rank, not a rank of places to live or work.
The first row is San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, at $53,810 per year. The middle metro row by published pay is Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, at $39,060 per year. That middle metro mark gives one more check on how far the top rows sit from a common place in the set.
These are nominal wages. Nominal means the dollar amount shown in the source. This list does not adjust for local price levels. It also does not tell us how many openings an area has now. Use a local page to see price-level context when an exact BEA row exists. Use the separate job block to inspect current employer-title matches.
1. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $53,810 per year, or $12,850 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 210 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 0.54.
Job count
Metro areas with the largest Office Machine Operators, Except Computer job estimates
A large wage can appear in a small job market. A large job market can have a lower wage. That is why WageScope keeps pay and job count in separate views. The six rows below have the largest published employment estimates for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer among metro rows in this release. Employment means the number of wage and salary jobs in scope. It does not mean open roles.
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the largest listed metro estimate in this set, at 3,630 jobs. Its median is $45,750 per year. Compare that with San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, which leads the published median list. The leaders may match, or they may not. Each list answers a different question.
Job count can help you see the scale of a local labor market. It cannot show churn, new hiring, job quality, remote work, or the chance that one person will get hired. Current listings add a second view, but they are a dated sample of posts. WageScope never turns the listing count into a demand score.
1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has 3,630 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 14.4% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $45,750 per year, or $4,790 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 2.37.
Local share
Where Office Machine Operators, Except Computer has a larger share of local jobs
Location quotient is a share check. A value of 1 means the role has the same share of local jobs as it has across the nation. A value above 1 means the local share is larger. A value below 1 means the local share is smaller. It is not a count. It is not a wage. It does not say that a place is growing.
Binghamton, NY has the highest published location quotient in this bounded metro set, at 4.78. The same row lists 70 jobs and a median of $37,170 per year. Reading all three values keeps a high share from being mistaken for a large market or high pay.
A small area can have a high location quotient because the role makes up a large part of a small local job base. A large area can have many workers and a lower quotient. Use the quotient to ask where the role is common in the mix. Use employment to ask how many jobs BLS estimated. Use the wage fields to ask what the published pay range looks like.
1. Binghamton, NY has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 4.78. BLS lists 70 jobs and a median of $37,170 per year, or $3,790 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
2. Springfield, IL has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 4.33. BLS lists 70 jobs and a median of $48,290 per year, or $7,330 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
SOC family
How Office Machine Operators, Except Computer sits in Office and Administrative Support
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is SOC 43-9071. BLS places it in the Office and Administrative Support major group. Among 54 detailed roles in that group with a published annual median, Office Machine Operators, Except Computer ranks 47 of 54 by median. This is a pay rank inside one source family. It is not a rank of skill, value, status, or career fit.
The closest same-family medians help set a fair peer frame. They do not claim that the work is the same. Official SOC titles can cover different tasks and settings. WageScope uses the family only because BLS publishes that link. It does not infer a career move, a skill match, or a hiring path from the wage gap.
Use these peer rows to spot whether the $40,960 median sits near many family roles or far from them. Then open a role's own page before using its number. Each role has a different code, job count, wage spread, and place pattern. One family label does not erase those facts.
1. Data Entry Keyers, SOC 43-9021, has a U.S. median of $41,340 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $380 per year.
2. Telephone Operators, SOC 43-2021, has a U.S. median of $41,740 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $780 per year.
Data care
How much care to use with the Office Machine Operators, Except Computer estimate
BLS marks the employment relative standard error at 4.1%. It marks the mean-wage relative standard error at 1%. A relative standard error, or RSE, is a survey precision flag. A smaller RSE often means less sampling uncertainty. It is not the chance that one worker's pay is right or wrong.
The employment RSE applies to the 25,130 job estimate. The mean-wage RSE applies to the published mean of $43,220 per year. These fields do not give a matching RSE for the median or each percentile. WageScope shows the fields BLS published and does not move one RSE to another measure.
Survey values can change when BLS updates its methods, sample, models, or source year. That is why this page keeps May 2025 in view. A later release can replace these facts only after MeritLog pins the new official files, checks the rows, and reviews the page again. A changed number is not treated as a correction unless the source says so.
A simple way to compare Office Machine Operators, Except Computer across places
First, compare the same wage metric. Use annual with annual or hourly with hourly. Next, check the source date. Keep May 2025 BLS rows together. Then read employment and location quotient beside pay. This stops a high median from standing in for market size or local share. Last, add BEA price-level context only when the exact place has an approved row.
A state, metro, and nonmetro area are not the same kind of map. Do not rank them in one list without saying so. WageScope groups like with like. It also keeps a national row as a broad bench mark. A local page can show the local row, its state row when that link is exact, and the U.S. row without blending them.
If a value is blank, keep it blank. If BLS marks a top code, read it as a lower bound. Do not fill a blank from a nearby place. Do not turn a wage gap into a claim about taxes, hours, benefits, work rules, or a household budget. Those facts are not in the OEWS row.
Move from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer wage data to one real listing
The job block on this page uses a strict employer-title match for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer. It may show fewer rows than the full MeritLog job search. That is on purpose. A false negative is safer here than a job card for a different role. Each card keeps its employer, place, source, and seen date. The cards do not change the BLS wage data.
Open one listing and read its own pay, work place, level, and needs. Compare its posted range with the BLS spread only as context. A posted range is set by an employer for one role. The BLS range is a survey view across many jobs. Neither source proves that a person is fit for the work.
When you tailor a résumé, use work facts you can back up. Do not turn $40,960 into a skill or result. Do not copy a BLS job count into your work history. MeritLog can help shape confirmed experience for a chosen listing. The wage page stays public and read only. It does not save a job or create a résumé on page load.
What this Office Machine Operators, Except Computer page does not claim
This page does not say what one Office Machine Operators, Except Computer worker earns. It does not promise that a job pays the median. It does not state a starting wage. It does not explain why the mean and median differ. It does not add benefits, tips, stock, bonus pay, taxes, or work hours unless BLS includes them in the published wage measure.
The page does not count people who work for themselves. It does not turn 25,130 into current openings. It does not read private MeritLog jobs or Career Memory. MeritLog does not use the page to build a private career profile. While public analytics are on, GA4, Ahrefs, and Meta may receive the public page URL; Your Privacy Choices or Global Privacy Control turns that off. The page does not send its text to a model.
The best use is narrow and clear. Read the May 2025 BLS wage range. Check how the role changes by place. Add the separate 2024 BEA price level when an exact row exists. Inspect a dated employer-title match. Then make a résumé choice from facts you have confirmed. Keep each source tied to the question it can answer.
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA has the highest annual median among the metro rows with a published value on this page, at $53,810. This is a nominal BLS estimate with no price-level adjustment.
Are the current job listings included in the BLS wage calculation?
No. MeritLog shows eligible live public-catalog listings separately, with their own source and observation date. Posted pay never changes the official BLS distribution.
2. Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $53,320 per year, or $12,360 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 40 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 0.63.
3. Salem, OR has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $50,670 per year, or $9,710 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 30 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 1.07.
4. Anchorage, AK has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $50,230 per year, or $9,270 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 40 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 1.4.
5. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $48,310 per year, or $7,350 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 850 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 0.83.
6. Springfield, IL has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median of $48,290 per year, or $7,330 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. BLS lists 70 jobs there, against 25,130 across the U.S. The local location quotient is 4.33.
2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN has 850 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 3.4% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $44,370 per year, or $3,410 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 1.16.
3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA has 850 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 3.4% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $48,310 per year, or $7,350 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 0.83.
4. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA has 700 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 2.8% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $37,210 per year, or $3,750 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 1.49.
5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has 680 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 2.7% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $38,620 per year, or $2,340 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 1.45.
6. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV has 630 estimated Office Machine Operators, Except Computer jobs, or 2.5% of the national 25,130 job estimate. Its median is $40,980 per year, or $20 above the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. Its location quotient is 1.25.
3. Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 3.45. BLS lists 60 jobs and a median of $32,290 per year, or $8,670 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
4. Manchester-Nashua, NH has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 3.23. BLS lists 100 jobs and a median of $31,040 per year, or $9,920 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
5. Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 3.03. BLS lists 130 jobs and a median of $38,640 per year, or $2,320 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
6. Rochester, NY has a Office Machine Operators, Except Computer location quotient of 2.66. BLS lists 210 jobs and a median of $38,820 per year, or $2,140 below the U.S. Office Machine Operators, Except Computer median. The U.S. job estimate is 25,130.
3. Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service, SOC 43-9051, has a U.S. median of $39,280 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $1,680 per year.
4. Couriers and Messengers, SOC 43-5021, has a U.S. median of $39,200 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $1,760 per year.
5. Tellers, SOC 43-3071, has a U.S. median of $43,030 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $2,070 per year.
6. Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service, SOC 43-2011, has a U.S. median of $38,630 per year. Its gap from Office Machine Operators, Except Computer is $2,330 per year.
Precise employer-title matches for Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
Matched from employer-posted title terms, not a BLS classification. Confirm the listing's location because this occupation-wide set is not a U.S. place filter. A posted range never changes the official distribution above.
