Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
SOC 51-9111 · 2024-2034
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $45,024per year
- Projected openings
- 51,810
- Projected change
- +4.1%
- Usually needs
- High school diploma or equivalent
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Operations Monitoring
- Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Maintenance
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $56,557 | 440 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $50,702 | 1,150 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $50,406 | 920 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $49,616 | 560 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $47,862 | 590 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $47,687 | 1,330 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $47,548 | 3,010 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $47,164 | 880 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $47,102 | 1,460 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $46,220 | 840 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $46,220 | 2,720 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $45,758 | 1,270 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $44,876 | 1,830 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $44,835 | 320 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $44,774 | 220 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $44,312 | 1,120 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $42,834 | 500 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $42,701 | 4,730 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $42,598 | 1,760 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $41,737 | 3,540 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $41,531 | 810 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $41,172 | 80 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $41,080 | 11,860 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $40,875 | 320 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $40,517 | 5,160 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $40,208 | 110 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $40,167 | 510 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $38,310 | 2,580 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $37,356 | 70 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $35,848 | 340 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $38,076 | 104,810 | -3.1% |
| Machine Feeders and Offbearers | $41,264 | 5,140 | -10.2% |
| Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders | $48,379 | 3,540 | -2.4% |
| Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders | $49,842 | 4,980 | -3.5% |
| Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders | $47,162 | 3,280 | -6.3% |
| Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders | $54,117 | 14,400 | -4.8% |