High paying production jobs in Sumter, SC with no experience

The best paid production occupations in Sumter, SC that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. 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 Sumter, SC run 12.0% below the national average (2024), so a Sumter, SC salary is worth about 1.14× 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, Sumter, SC · Employed

1Machinists$49,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,600 – $81,06090
2Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$49,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,840 – $63,980270
3Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$45,930
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,950 – $64,87050
4Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$44,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,340 – $78,140170
5Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders$44,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,530 – $59,220100
6Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$39,040
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,290 – $47,570880
7Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$37,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,400 – $52,07060
8Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$34,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,900 – $60,96050
9Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers$28,920
No formal educational credential
$21,120 – $38,35070

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

#	Occupation	MedianSumter, SC	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,480	$40,600 – $81,060	90
2	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,250	$35,840 – $63,980	270
3	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,930	$35,950 – $64,870	50
4	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,540	$35,340 – $78,140	170
5	Chemical Equipment Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,530	$44,530 – $59,220	100
6	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,040	$37,290 – $47,570	880
7	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,470	$33,400 – $52,070	60
8	Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,790	$29,900 – $60,960	50
9	Laundry and Dry-Cleaning WorkersNo formal educational credential	$28,920	$21,120 – $38,350	70

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