SALARY · PACKAGING AND FILLING MACHINE OPERATORS AND TENDERS · NORTH CAROLINA

Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders salary in North Carolina

Salary talk gets noisy fast, so I try to keep it plain. In North Carolina, packaging and filling machine operators and tenders earned a median of $41,150 a year. From there, this page walks through the range, the hourly rate, how many people do the job here, and what stays in your pocket after federal tax and FICA.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$41,150

$20 per hour at the median · That is $2,070 (4.8 percent) below the national median of $43,220 for this occupation.

$43,850Mean annual salary

$21Mean hourly wage

$11,870People employed in this job in North Carolina

Salary range

25th: $36,160Median: $41,15075th: $49,190

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$36,160
Median (50th percentile)	$41,150
75th percentile	$49,190
Mean	$43,850

The middle half of workers earned from $36,160 to $49,190 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

$34,111 a year

$2,843 a month

Federal tax $2,758 · FICA $3,148 · State tax $1,133

Caveat: the North Carolina rate is from NCDOR, but the $12,750 deduction comes from the statute text, not an NCDOR deduction page.

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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