Occupational Employment Statistics

DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

53-7011 Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Occupational Description:
Control or tend conveyors or conveyor systems that move materials or products to and from stockpiles, processing stations, departments, or vehicles. May control speed and routing of materials or products.

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
First Quarter 2026

Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Minnesota	460	90	$21.35/hr	$18.51/hr	$19.22/hr	$21.13/hr	$23.27/hr	$25.33/hr

Leading Industries for Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Industry	OES Employment (Statewide)	OES Median Wage (Statewide)
Manufacturing	30	$18.97/hr
Trade, Transportation and Utilities	380	$20.49/hr
Financial Activities	N/A	N/A
Professional and Business Services	N/A	N/A

Other Regional Data for Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Geography	Employment	Median Wage	Projections % Change 2022-2032
Duluth MN-WI MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northeast Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Grand Forks ND-MN MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
La Crosse WI-MN MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southwest Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Central Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northeast Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
St Cloud MN MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mankato-North Mankato MN MSA	20	$19.31/hr	N/A
Fargo ND-MN MSA	30	$18.41/hr	N/A
Southeast Balance of State	30	$21.51/hr	N/A
Rochester MN MSA	30	$17.96/hr	N/A
Southeast Minnesota	50	$19.53/hr	2.2%
Northwest Balance of State	60	$19.35/hr	N/A
Northwest Minnesota	70	$20.39/hr	N/A
Southwest Minnesota	100	$21.22/hr	0.0%
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN	190	$19.26/hr	5.8%
Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington MN-WI MSA	200	$19.26/hr	N/A
Minnesota	460	$21.13/hr	2.7%

Related Occupations

Occupations	Employment	Median Wage	Projections % Change 2022-2032
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	3,430	$25.67/hr	3.5%
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders	N/A	$37.65/hr	N/A
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	1,960	$28.60/hr	-5.6%
Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers	410	$25.87/hr	N/A
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	660	$27.81/hr	-4.6%
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand	54,480	$22.74/hr	6.7%

Task for Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis.
Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets.
Operate elevator systems in conjunction with conveyor systems.
Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
Measure dimensions of bundles, using rulers, and cut battens to required sizes, using power saws.
Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools.
Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.
Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.
Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.