High paying production jobs in Texarkana, TX-AR with no experience

The best paid production occupations in Texarkana, TX-AR 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 Texarkana, TX-AR run 16.0% below the national average (2024), so a Texarkana, TX-AR salary is worth about 1.19× 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, Texarkana, TX-AR · Employed

1Machinists$49,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,860 – $68,080140
2Production Workers, All Other$49,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,570 – $65,980140
3Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$49,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $76,350380
4Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$44,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,380 – $61,630130
5Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$41,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,000 – $61,990590
6Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$39,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,530 – $60,33070
7Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$39,260
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,830 – $54,84040
8Helpers--Production Workers$36,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,850 – $49,87080
9Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$35,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,450 – $45,760320
10Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$34,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,980 – $44,870130
11Butchers and Meat Cutters$31,420
No formal educational credential
$22,520 – $43,03040
12Bakers$30,370
No formal educational credential
$25,610 – $49,68080
13Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers$27,020
No formal educational credential
$21,790 – $57,33090

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

#	Occupation	MedianTexarkana, TX-AR	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,310	$33,860 – $68,080	140
2	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,100	$29,570 – $65,980	140
3	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,070	$31,200 – $76,350	380
4	Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,610	$34,380 – $61,630	130
5	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,920	$33,000 – $61,990	590
6	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,940	$33,530 – $60,330	70
7	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,260	$33,830 – $54,840	40
8	Helpers--Production WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,110	$27,850 – $49,870	80
9	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,990	$28,450 – $45,760	320
10	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,880	$30,980 – $44,870	130
11	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$31,420	$22,520 – $43,030	40
12	BakersNo formal educational credential	$30,370	$25,610 – $49,680	80
13	Laundry and Dry-Cleaning WorkersNo formal educational credential	$27,020	$21,790 – $57,330	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Texarkana, TX-AR. 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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