High paying production jobs in Morristown, TN with no degree

The best paid production occupations in Morristown, TN 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 Morristown, TN run 13.6% below the national average (2024), so a Morristown, TN salary is worth about 1.16× 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

Find production jobs in Morristown, TN

OccupationMedian, Morristown, TN · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$69,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,840 – $102,460550
2Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators$62,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,670 – $62,76070
3Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$49,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,400 – $54,21030
4Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders$48,420
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,660 – $64,980100
5Tool and Die Makers$48,400
Postsecondary nondegree award
$48,400 – $61,210180
6Machinists$47,370
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,960 – $65,920330
7Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$47,240
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,910 – $58,980100
8Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$47,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,390 – $69,940180
9Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$46,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,880 – $62,65060
10Food Processing Workers, All Other$46,320
No formal educational credential
$37,580 – $46,320380
11Production Workers, All Other$45,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,120 – $63,400420
12Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$44,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,130 – $64,310110
13Printing Press Operators$43,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,500 – $56,75090
14Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$43,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,790 – $79,58030
15Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders$43,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,530 – $47,57040
16Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$42,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,250 – $58,4801,530
17Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$41,810
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,880 – $54,30030
18Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$40,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,350 – $44,620120
19Butchers and Meat Cutters$39,960
No formal educational credential
$29,520 – $39,96090
20Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$39,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,080 – $62,720290
21Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$39,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,610 – $64,040670
22Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers$38,720
No formal educational credential
$33,450 – $43,360260
23Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$38,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,740 – $47,670410
24Helpers--Production Workers$37,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,000 – $47,370460
25Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood$36,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,330 – $46,32050
26Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$36,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,650 – $54,79060
27Sewing Machine Operators$33,850
No formal educational credential
$21,090 – $42,76060
28Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing$31,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,300 – $40,450150
29Woodworkers, All Other$30,510
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,200 – $35,120120
30Bakers$28,870
No formal educational credential
$21,770 – $35,39070

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

#	Occupation	MedianMorristown, TN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$69,450	$44,840 – $102,460	550
2	Computer Numerically Controlled Tool OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,760	$41,670 – $62,760	70
3	Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,090	$36,400 – $54,210	30
4	Chemical Equipment Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,420	$43,660 – $64,980	100
5	Tool and Die MakersPostsecondary nondegree award	$48,400	$48,400 – $61,210	180
6	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,370	$33,960 – $65,920	330
7	Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,240	$36,910 – $58,980	100
8	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,070	$37,390 – $69,940	180
9	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,680	$34,880 – $62,650	60
10	Food Processing Workers, All OtherNo formal educational credential	$46,320	$37,580 – $46,320	380
11	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,130	$31,120 – $63,400	420
12	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,780	$40,130 – $64,310	110
13	Printing Press OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,990	$31,500 – $56,750	90
14	Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,680	$31,790 – $79,580	30
15	Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,270	$36,530 – $47,570	40
16	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,890	$33,250 – $58,480	1,530
17	Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,810	$37,880 – $54,300	30
18	Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,090	$34,350 – $44,620	120
19	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$39,960	$29,520 – $39,960	90
20	Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,860	$37,080 – $62,720	290
21	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,710	$35,610 – $64,040	670
22	Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and TrimmersNo formal educational credential	$38,720	$33,450 – $43,360	260
23	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,310	$29,740 – $47,670	410
24	Helpers--Production WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,700	$30,000 – $47,370	460
25	Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, WoodHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,910	$28,330 – $46,320	50
26	Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,330	$27,650 – $54,790	60
27	Sewing Machine OperatorsNo formal educational credential	$33,850	$21,090 – $42,760	60
28	Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except SawingHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,270	$30,300 – $40,450	150
29	Woodworkers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,510	$30,200 – $35,120	120
30	BakersNo formal educational credential	$28,870	$21,770 – $35,390	70

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Morristown, TN. 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.

More for Morristown, TN

Other metro areas in TN

By field in Morristown, TN

Without a degree

The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in Morristown, TN to rank honestly.

High paying production jobs in Morristown, TN with no degree

More for Morristown, TN

Other metro areas in TN

By field in Morristown, TN

Without a degree

High paying production jobs in each state with no degree