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Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic salary in Boston, MA

The median heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earns $55,650 a year, 14% above the US median. After tax that is roughly $3,676 a month.

10th percentile
$45,410
25th percentile
$48,590
Median percentile
$55,650
75th percentile
$82,350
90th percentile
$93,260

Based on 110 employed. Data period: BLS OEWS May 2025. Percentiles show the spread of pay, not experience; reading the 25th percentile as "entry level" is only an approximation.

What you keep

$44,112 take-home a year
Gross pay$55,650
Federal income tax−$4,498
Social Security + Medicare−$4,257
Massachusetts income tax (approx.)−$2,783
Monthly take-home$3,676
Every two weeks$1,697

Does it go far here?

$51,401Median pay in Boston, MA is worth this at average US prices (local price level 108.3 vs 100).
55%of take-home pay goes to the median rent ($2,023 a month, Census ACS).

Top-paying jobs in Boston, MA

JobMedian pay
Surgeons, All Other$386,300
Emergency Medicine Physicians$356,230
Natural Sciences Managers$291,000
Family Medicine Physicians$284,010
General Internal Medicine Physicians$243,230
Nurse Anesthetists$239,200
Obstetricians and Gynecologists$235,460
Physicians, All Other$229,870

All heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic salaries · Take-home pay in Massachusetts