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24 schools in Washington offer machining & CNC-related programs, compared below on official cost, completion, and earnings data. Prefer to earn while you learn? 2 registered apprenticeship programs in Washington train machining & CNC apprentices — see apprenticeships. Federal program data groups machining & cnc with welding — schools below may offer any of these.
Occupation pay is what working machining & CNC professionals in Washington earn (all experience levels) — school "earnings" figures above are medians for each school's recent federally-aided students across all its programs, which read lower.
| School | City | Type | Net price / yr | Completion | Earnings (10 yr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grays Harbor College | Aberdeen | public | $4,783 | 42.9% | $40,865 |
| Bellingham Technical College | Bellingham | public | $5,997 | 51.6% | $49,748 |
| Bates Technical College | Tacoma | public | $6,292 | 39.8% | $50,051 |
| Spokane Community College | Spokane | public | $5,473 | 36.6% | $41,984 |
| Lake Washington Institute of Technology | Kirkland | public | $6,817 | 51.5% | $50,669 |
| South Seattle College | Seattle | public | $6,004 | 23.9% | $44,486 |
| Skagit Valley College | Mount Vernon | public | $6,064 | 41.6% | $43,505 |
| Olympic College | Bremerton | public | $7,172 | 44.1% | $43,169 |
| Renton Technical College | Renton | public | $8,296 | 37.7% | $49,782 |
| Columbia Basin College | Pasco | public | $8,317 | 42.8% | $46,680 |
| Lower Columbia College | Longview | public | $7,630 | 43.5% | $40,691 |
| South Puget Sound Community College | Olympia | public | $9,132 | 44.8% | $45,039 |
| Walla Walla Community College | Walla Walla | public | $9,406 | 49.1% | $43,526 |
| Centralia College | Centralia | public | $9,862 | 46.4% | $43,140 |
| Edmonds College | Lynnwood | public | $11,010 | 39.5% | $48,144 |
| Everett Community College | Everett | public | $10,684 | 40% | $45,434 |
| Clover Park Technical College | Lakewood | public | $9,864 | 51.7% | $41,787 |
| Wenatchee Valley College | Wenatchee | public | $9,722 | 49.4% | $41,127 |
| Peninsula College | Port Angeles | public | $9,246 | 49.2% | $37,078 |
| Clark College | Vancouver | public | $11,465 | 42.4% | $42,356 |
| Green River College | Auburn | public | $13,803 | 44.5% | $50,712 |
| Yakima Valley College | Yakima | public | $11,843 | 50.5% | $43,499 |
| Big Bend Community College | Moses Lake | public | $12,210 | 47.9% | $43,814 |
| Perry Technical Institute | Yakima | private nonprofit | $20,047 | 79.7% | $57,764 |
Ranking = median earnings 10 years after entry per $1,000 of average yearly net price (methodology). Figures are institution-wide federal medians for each school as a whole — not machining & CNC graduates specifically. Schools without both figures sort last — "not reported" means the federal dataset lacks the value, not that the school is bad.
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