High paying production jobs in Grants Pass, OR with no degree

The best paid production occupations in Grants Pass, OR that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Grants Pass, OR run 2.2% below the national average (2024), so a Grants Pass, OR salary is worth about 1.02× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Grants Pass, OR · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$69,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,530 – $89,700130
2Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$51,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,200 – $64,400100
3Butchers and Meat Cutters$49,800
No formal educational credential
$38,490 – $55,53040
4Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$49,440
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,100 – $61,41080
5Production Workers, All Other$48,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,030 – $56,66050
6Machinists$47,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,320 – $69,73050
7Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$46,580
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,840 – $62,64080
8Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$46,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,060 – $58,240190
9Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators$44,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,690 – $57,61090
10Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$43,370
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,900 – $48,91070
11Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$42,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,410 – $46,17050
12Bakers$37,890
No formal educational credential
$32,650 – $44,73060
13Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$36,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,870 – $48,02080

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianGrants Pass, OR	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$69,020	$50,530 – $89,700	130
2	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,330	$47,200 – $64,400	100
3	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$49,800	$38,490 – $55,530	40
4	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,440	$32,100 – $61,410	80
5	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,480	$42,030 – $56,660	50
6	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,870	$36,320 – $69,730	50
7	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,580	$39,840 – $62,640	80
8	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,460	$38,060 – $58,240	190
9	Computer Numerically Controlled Tool OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,880	$39,690 – $57,610	90
10	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,370	$35,900 – $48,910	70
11	Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and FinishersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,130	$37,410 – $46,170	50
12	BakersNo formal educational credential	$37,890	$32,650 – $44,730	60
13	Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,610	$30,870 – $48,020	80

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Grants Pass, OR. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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