Earnings
The U.S. Department of Labor reports the following mean annual earnings for workers in plastics product manufacturing in May 2019: first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, $60,250; model makers, $50,620; inspectors, $37,260; molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, tenders, and operators, $32,920; and assemblers and fabricators, $31,230. Salaries for these workers ranged from less than $23,000 to $99,500 or more.
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