SALARY · PACKAGING AND FILLING MACHINE OPERATORS AND TENDERS · PENNSYLVANIA

Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders salary in Pennsylvania

A job title alone does not tell you what you will earn. Place matters, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars. In Pennsylvania, packaging and filling machine operators and tenders sat at a median of $44,480 a year, which is the figure I would use first when you compare offers.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$44,480

$21 per hour at the median · That is $1,260 (2.9 percent) above the national median of $43,220 for this occupation.

$45,360Mean annual salary
$22Mean hourly wage
$19,340People employed in this job in Pennsylvania

Salary range

25th: $37,250Median: $44,48075th: $50,230
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$37,250
Median (50th percentile)$44,480
75th percentile$50,230
Mean$45,360

The middle half of workers earned from $37,250 to $50,230 a year. Employment size matters too. A field with many workers in a state usually means more openings and more room to move employers without moving states. A small field can pay well but offer fewer ways in.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$36,554 a year
$3,046 a month
Federal tax $3,158 · FICA $3,403 · State tax $1,366

Caveat: the $0 deduction point for Pennsylvania was corroborated from a secondary host of the 2025 booklet, not from a pa.gov page.

Pennsylvania local earned income tax and the Philadelphia wage tax are separate and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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