High paying production jobs in Salisbury, MD with no degree

The best paid production occupations in Salisbury, MD 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 Salisbury, MD run 4.4% below the national average (2024), so a Salisbury, MD salary is worth about 1.05× 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, Salisbury, MD · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$71,560
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,750 – $103,030130
2Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$69,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,700 – $74,29060
3Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$58,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,880 – $89,19060
4Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders$50,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,130 – $65,06050
5Machinists$48,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,850 – $70,22050
6Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$47,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,810 – $75,24070
7Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$46,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,150 – $76,100100
8Production Workers, All Other$37,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,770 – $60,53050
9Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$37,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,390 – $45,69080
10Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$36,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,770 – $51,790150
11Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers$32,210
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $45,31060
12Sewing Machine Operators$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $32,210130
13Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $39,34030

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

#	Occupation	MedianSalisbury, MD	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$71,560	$41,750 – $103,030	130
2	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$69,060	$36,700 – $74,290	60
3	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,480	$34,880 – $89,190	60
4	Chemical Equipment Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,020	$40,130 – $65,060	50
5	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,890	$39,850 – $70,220	50
6	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,210	$41,810 – $75,240	70
7	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,270	$35,150 – $76,100	100
8	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,690	$33,770 – $60,530	50
9	Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and FinishersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,610	$32,390 – $45,690	80
10	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,460	$31,770 – $51,790	150
11	Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and TrimmersNo formal educational credential	$32,210	$31,200 – $45,310	60
12	Sewing Machine OperatorsNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $32,210	130
13	Laundry and Dry-Cleaning WorkersNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $39,340	30

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