HIGH POINT – How much do manufacturing workers make by state? Do workers in specific regions make more than others?

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Get it Made – a company that provides manufacturing services to companies around the globe – set out to answer.. Its analysis includes all roles that BLS classifies as “production occupations,” which range widely, from food production manufacturing to machining.

A heat map indicating manufacturing pay by state. The darker the color, the higher the pay.

“Manufacturers have many different types of occupations, and so, too, do they make different wages,” said Get it Made’s Elizabeth Jackson. “Those in the South tend to pay the lowest salaries across the board, with the median hourly wages falling beneath the national median wage of $18.13. Wages in much of the country fall somewhere between paying $18 and $22 an hour. But a few notable states are outliers, paying above $22 per hour. These states are not geographically clustered but instead have other factors explaining their higher wages—such as a recent oil and gas boom in North Dakota or the need to pay slightly higher wages to draw skilled workers from the lower 48 states to Alaska.”

The top 10 states for manufacturing pay are:

Manufacturing pay doesn’t seem to compare much with a state’s overall manufacturing output. The top three manufacturing states are California, Texas and Ohio, none of which are among the top for pay. The biggest states for furniture manufacturing specifically are Texas, Michigan and California, with none of them once again leading in pay.

See the list of all 50 states here.

Robert Dalheim, senior editor of case goods and global sourcing, has been writing about the woodworking industry and business news since 2015. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with degrees in journalism and political science. Contact Bobby at rdalheim@furnituretoday.com or by calling (336) 605-3815.

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