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Bag Machine Setup Operator Salary
in Kansas City, Missouri

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$48,462 (USD)

Average Salary

$23/hr

Average Hourly

$737

Average Bonus

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The average pay for a Bag Machine Setup Operator is $48,462 a year and $23 an hour in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The average salary range for a Bag Machine Setup Operator is between $35,571 and $57,670. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Estimated salary in 2029:
$54,436
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Cost of Living Score:

Description: Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Platte, and Cass counties. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090, making it the 37th most-populous city in the United States, as well as the sixth-most populous city in the Midwest. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence...
Description:
  • Sets up and adjusts machines that convert, saw, corrugate, band, wrap, box, stitch, form, or seal paper or paperboard sheets into products, such as toilet tissue, towels, napkins, bags, envelopes, tubing, cartons, wax rolls, and containers, according to specifications, by any combination of following tasks: adjusts rolls, guides, and chutes to accommodate type of paper or paperboard fed from parent rolls or flat stock from automatic feedracks, using handtools.
  • Measures, spaces, and sets saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications, using rule, thumbscrews, and wrenches.
  • Installs printing attachment to machine and makes adjustment for clarity of print.
  • Threads wire through stitching head and synchronizes speed for spacing stitches.
  • Installs or resets cutting dies according to work orders, using handtools.
  • Operates machine for test run to verify adjustments and observes functioning of machine parts, such as gauges, elevator, belts, slip clutches, oil injectors, glue feeders, and electrical devices.
  • Repairs or replaces defective parts.
  • May be designated according to type of machine adjusted as bag-machine set-up operator; gluing-machine adjuster; stitcher set-up operator, automatic.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Bag Machine Setup Operator is $48,462 a year and $23 an hour in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The average salary range for a Bag Machine Setup Operator is between $35,571 and $57,670. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Kansas City, Missouri.

ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.

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Job Statistics

Bag Machine Setup Operator Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Job family population: 92,050

Estimated population of Bag Machine Setup Operator jobs: 23,252

Rate of error: 1.9%

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Kansas City Cost of Living Score:

Description: Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Platte, and Cass counties. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090, making it the 37th most-populous city in the United States, as well as the sixth-most populous city in the Midwest. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence...
Description:
  • Sets up and adjusts machines that convert, saw, corrugate, band, wrap, box, stitch, form, or seal paper or paperboard sheets into products, such as toilet tissue, towels, napkins, bags, envelopes, tubing, cartons, wax rolls, and containers, according to specifications, by any combination of following tasks: adjusts rolls, guides, and chutes to accommodate type of paper or paperboard fed from parent rolls or flat stock from automatic feedracks, using handtools.
  • Measures, spaces, and sets saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications, using rule, thumbscrews, and wrenches.
  • Installs printing attachment to machine and makes adjustment for clarity of print.
  • Threads wire through stitching head and synchronizes speed for spacing stitches.
  • Installs or resets cutting dies according to work orders, using handtools.
  • Operates machine for test run to verify adjustments and observes functioning of machine parts, such as gauges, elevator, belts, slip clutches, oil injectors, glue feeders, and electrical devices.
  • Repairs or replaces defective parts.
  • May be designated according to type of machine adjusted as bag-machine set-up operator; gluing-machine adjuster; stitcher set-up operator, automatic.
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