Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Salary

Yes — at the median salary of $66K, rent takes 27.2% of take-home pay. A 2-bedroom at the HUD Fair Market Rent runs $1,179/month. That stays under the 30% guideline most financial planners use.

The 10th-percentile wage — what new extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics typically earn — is $31K/year. Take-home on that works out to about $1,845/month.

Local pay is 37% above the national median — $66K here vs. $48K nationally.

South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area pays $66K median vs. the U.S. average of $48K — that’s +37%.

The median is $65,520 a year, that works out to about $32 an hour. But the range is wide: entry-level workers start around $30,750, and experienced extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastics can clear $72,190. These are BLS numbers, based on employer-reported data, not self-reported surveys.

On that salary, you'd take home roughly $4,338/month after taxes. A 2-bedroom here rents for about $1,179/month, which eats 27.2% of your paycheck. That's under the 30% guideline most financial planners use, so the numbers work.

South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area has a Regional Price Parity of 100 (100 is the national average). That's right at the national average. After cost-of-living adjustment, the median extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic salary is worth about $65,520 in national-average purchasing power.

The table above ranks every state by median pay for this role. Keep in mind that the highest-paying states tend to have the highest costs of living, so the top salary doesn't always mean the most money in your pocket.