Conveyor Operators and Tenders Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Conveyor Operators and Tenders offer sit among all 26,060 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 26,060 people in May 2024, 0.02% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 3,480 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in South Dakota, whose location quotient of 7.29 says this work is 7.29 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $25,450 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($60,390) is 1.7 times the 10th percentile ($34,940), a gap of $25,450 a year. The mean of $44,800 sitting above the median of $41,230 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, 43 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Wyoming at $75,550; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Conveyor Operators and Tenders stands number 503 by employment and number 686 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, the group median wage is $52,310 across 50 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 21% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 19 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $41,230, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 1,340 jobs, 5.1% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $40,100 a year, against $44,500 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $41,230 works out to $3,436 a month before taxes, $1,586 per biweekly paycheck, and $793 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,500) to the 75th ($48,640) is worth $11,140 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $45,353 would sit between the median ($41,230) and the 75th percentile ($48,640), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,500, is $3,730 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Sibling occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations: Stockers and Order Fillers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, Light Truck Drivers, Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators, First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, Packers and Packagers, Hand. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.