Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers worker at that point in the distribution, so $57,800 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 12,170 jobs nationally, Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Tennessee alone holds 1,480 of those jobs, the top three states hold 26.8%, and the deepest concentration sits in Tennessee (location quotient 5.71, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $27,610 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($62,790) is 1.8 times the 10th percentile ($35,180), a gap of $27,610 a year. The mean of $48,940 sitting above the median of $47,260 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 35 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Washington at $156,850; the jobs leader is Tennessee:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers stands number 659 by employment and number 589 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 3% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 17 of the 34 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,260, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is the largest metro employer with 720 jobs, 5.9% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $50,720 a year, against $50,720 in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $47,260 a year is $3,938 a month gross, $1,818 every two weeks, $909 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,380) to the 75th ($57,800) is worth $18,420 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,938 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $51,986 would sit between the median ($47,260) and the 75th percentile ($57,800), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,380, is $7,880 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

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