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| Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators | Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials. |
The median hourly wage for Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators is $18.08 |
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| Boilermakers | Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines. |
The median hourly wage for Boilermakers is $30.91 |
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| Chemical Equipment Operators | Operate or tend equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of industrial or consumer products. Equipment used includes devulcanizers, steam-jacketed kettles, and reactor vessels. |
The median hourly wage for Chemical Equipment Operators is $23.13 |
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| Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders | Operate or tend machines to wash or clean products, such as barrels or kegs, glass items, tin plate, food, pulp, coal, plastic, or rubber, to remove impurities. |
The median hourly wage for Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders is $16.88 |
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| Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers | Wind wire coils used in electrical components, such as resistors and transformers, and in electrical equipment and instruments, such as field cores, bobbins, armature cores, electrical motors, generators, and control equipment. |
The median hourly wage for Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers is $18.46 |
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| Conveyor Operators and Tenders | 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. |
The median hourly wage for Conveyor Operators and Tenders is $17.50 |
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| Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber. |
The median hourly wage for Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters and Operators is $18.65 |
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| Cutters and Trimmers, Hand | Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber. |
The median hourly wage for Cutters and Trimmers, Hand is $14.52 |
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| Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material. |
The median hourly wage for Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters and Operators is $18.17 |
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| Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material. |
The median hourly wage for Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $18.08 |
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| Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes. |
The median hourly wage for Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $18.17 |
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| Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics. |
The median hourly wage for Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters and Operators is $18.13 |
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| Forging Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts. |
The median hourly wage for Forging Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $21.39 |
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| Foundry Mold and Coremakers | Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries. |
The median hourly wage for Foundry Mold and Coremakers is $18.13 |
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| Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators | Operate or tend heating equipment other than basic metal, plastic, or food processing equipment. Includes activities such as annealing glass, drying lumber, curing rubber, removing moisture from materials, or boiling soap. |
The median hourly wage for Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators is $21.01 |
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| Furniture Finishers | Shape, finish, and refinish damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish. |
The median hourly wage for Furniture Finishers is $17.60 |
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| Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand | Grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects. Includes chippers, buffers, and finishers. |
The median hourly wage for Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand is $17.16 |
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| Heat Treating Equipment Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend heating equipment, such as heat-treating furnaces, flame-hardening machines, induction machines, soaking pits, or vacuum equipment to temper, harden, anneal, or heat treat metal or plastic objects. |
The median hourly wage for Heat Treating Equipment Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $18.51 |
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| Helpers--Production Workers | Help production workers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment. |
The median hourly wage for Helpers--Production Workers is $14.42 |
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| Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend lathe and turning machines to turn, bore, thread, form, or face metal or plastic materials, such as wire, rod, or bar stock. |
The median hourly wage for Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $21.25 |
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| Machine Feeders and Offbearers | Feed materials into or remove materials from machines or equipment that is automatic or tended by other workers. |
The median hourly wage for Machine Feeders and Offbearers is $17.79 |
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| Machinists | Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments out of metal. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures. |
The median hourly wage for Machinists is $22.93 |
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| Milling and Planing Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces. |
The median hourly wage for Milling and Planing Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $22.55 |
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| Millwrights | Install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, or other drawings. |
The median hourly wage for Millwrights is $28.99 |
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| Mixing and Blending Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients. |
The median hourly wage for Mixing and Blending Machine Setters and Operators is $18.46 |
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| Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products. |
The median hourly wage for Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic is $17.50 |
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| Multiple Machine Tool Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot. |
The median hourly wage for Multiple Machine Tool Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $18.08 |
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| Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers | Paint, coat, or decorate articles, such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, toys, books, or leather. |
The median hourly wage for Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers is $17.93 |
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| Paper Goods Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products. |
The median hourly wage for Paper Goods Machine Setters and Operators is $21.54 |
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| Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators | Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. May perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints. |
The median hourly wage for Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators is $17.60 |
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| Plating and Coating Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend plating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Typically, the product being coated is immersed in molten metal or an electrolytic solution. |
The median hourly wage for Plating and Coating Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $17.88 |
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| Prepress Technicians | Format and proof text and images submitted by designers and clients into finished pages that can be printed. Includes digital and photo typesetting. May produce printing plates. |
The median hourly wage for Prepress Technicians is $20.48 |
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| Print Binding and Finishing Workers | Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines. |
The median hourly wage for Print Binding and Finishing Workers is $17.60 |
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| Printing Press Operators | Set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, or other printing machines. Includes short-run offset printing presses. |
The median hourly wage for Printing Press Operators is $18.17 |
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| Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers | Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters. |
The median hourly wage for Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers is $23.46 |
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| Rolling Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic | Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate, or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material. |
The median hourly wage for Rolling Machine Setters and Operators, Metal and Plastic is $22.21 |
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| Sawing Machine Setters and Operators, Wood | Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers. |
The median hourly wage for Sawing Machine Setters and Operators, Wood is $16.97 |
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| Sewing Machine Operators | Operate or tend sewing machines to join, reinforce, decorate, or perform related sewing operations in the manufacture of garment or nongarment products. |
The median hourly wage for Sewing Machine Operators is $14.28 |
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| Sheet Metal Workers | Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes. |
The median hourly wage for Sheet Metal Workers is $25.67 |
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| Structural Iron and Steel Workers | Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings. |
The median hourly wage for Structural Iron and Steel Workers is $28.17 |
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| Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters | Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products. |
The median hourly wage for Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters is $21.88 |
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| Supervisors and Managers of Production and Operating Workers | Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders. |
The median hourly wage for Supervisors and Managers of Production and Operating Workers is $29.71 |
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| Team Assemblers | Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them, rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team. |
The median hourly wage for Team Assemblers is $17.60 |
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| Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines that knit, loop, weave, or draw in textiles. |
The median hourly wage for Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters and Operators is $16.35 |
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| Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend machines that wind or twist textiles; or draw out and combine sliver, such as wool, hemp, or synthetic fibers. Includes slubber machine and drawing frame operators. |
The median hourly wage for Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters and Operators is $14.42 |
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| Tire Builders | Operate machines to build tires. |
The median hourly wage for Tire Builders is $23.03 |
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| Tool and Die Makers | Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, and fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools. |
The median hourly wage for Tool and Die Makers is $27.40 |
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| Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters and Operators | Set up, operate, or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser-beam machines. |
The median hourly wage for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters and Operators is $18.56 |
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| Woodworking Machine Setters and Operators, Except Sawing | Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. |
The median hourly wage for Woodworking Machine Setters and Operators, Except Sawing is $17.36 |
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