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Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile Salary
in East Chicago, Indiana
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$69,471 (USD)
Average Salary
$33/hr
Average Hourly
$2,390
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile is $69,471 a year and $33 an hour in East Chicago, Indiana, United States. The average salary range for a Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile is between $49,463 and $83,921. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in East Chicago, Indiana.
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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Estimated salary in 2029:
$78,034
5 Year Change:
12 %
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About East Chicago, Indiana
East Chicago Cost of Living Score:
Description:
East Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 26,370 at the 2020 census. Centered around heavy industry, the city is home to the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, an artificial freshwater harbor characterized by industrial and manufacturing activity.
Situated along Lake Michigan, East Chicago is about 18 miles (29 km) from downtown Chicago and is just west of Gary, Indiana.
Job Summary
Description:
- Lays firebrick and refractory tile to build, rebuild, reline, or patch high-temperature or heating equipment, such as boilers, ovens, furnaces, converters, cupolas, ladles, and soaking pits, according to job orders and blueprints: lays out work, using chalklines, plumb bobs, tapes, squares, and levels.
- Calculates angles and courses for building walls, arches, columns, corners, and bottoms.
- Removes burned or damaged brick and cleans surface of setting, using sledgehammer, pry bar, pneumatic chipping gun, scraper, and wire brush.
- Cuts brick to size, using brick hammer or powered abrasive saw.
- Spreads fire-clay mortar over brick with trowel and lays brick in place.
- Spreads or sprays refractories over exposed bricks to protect bricks against deterioration by heat, using trowel or spray gun.
- Positions or bends special frame or hanger over casings to lay arches.
- Cuts, notches, or drills openings to provide outlets, pyrometer mountings, brackets, and heating elements, using handtools.
- Patches or replaces firebrick linings of ladles and furnace tap holes.
- Constructs refractory forms for controlling quantity and flow of molten materials from furnace to rolling machines.
- May replace bolts, brackets, and heating elements, repair coke oven doors, weld cracks or holes in shell, or perform other repairs.
- May pack insulation into shells and frames to insulate heating equipment, such as furnaces, boilers, and ovens.
- May be designated according to structure worked on as bessemer-bottom maker; coke-oven mason; door repairer; furnace mason (constru.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile is $69,471 a year and $33 an hour in East Chicago, Indiana, United States. The average salary range for a Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile is between $49,463 and $83,921. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in East Chicago, Indiana.
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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Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Brickmasons and Blockmasons
Job family population: 56,830
Estimated population of Bricklayer Firebrick & Refractory Tile jobs: 4,429
Rate of error: 2.0%
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About East Chicago, Indiana
East Chicago Cost of Living Score:
Description:
East Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 26,370 at the 2020 census. Centered around heavy industry, the city is home to the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, an artificial freshwater harbor characterized by industrial and manufacturing activity.
Situated along Lake Michigan, East Chicago is about 18 miles (29 km) from downtown Chicago and is just west of Gary, Indiana.
Job Summary
Description:
- Lays firebrick and refractory tile to build, rebuild, reline, or patch high-temperature or heating equipment, such as boilers, ovens, furnaces, converters, cupolas, ladles, and soaking pits, according to job orders and blueprints: lays out work, using chalklines, plumb bobs, tapes, squares, and levels.
- Calculates angles and courses for building walls, arches, columns, corners, and bottoms.
- Removes burned or damaged brick and cleans surface of setting, using sledgehammer, pry bar, pneumatic chipping gun, scraper, and wire brush.
- Cuts brick to size, using brick hammer or powered abrasive saw.
- Spreads fire-clay mortar over brick with trowel and lays brick in place.
- Spreads or sprays refractories over exposed bricks to protect bricks against deterioration by heat, using trowel or spray gun.
- Positions or bends special frame or hanger over casings to lay arches.
- Cuts, notches, or drills openings to provide outlets, pyrometer mountings, brackets, and heating elements, using handtools.
- Patches or replaces firebrick linings of ladles and furnace tap holes.
- Constructs refractory forms for controlling quantity and flow of molten materials from furnace to rolling machines.
- May replace bolts, brackets, and heating elements, repair coke oven doors, weld cracks or holes in shell, or perform other repairs.
- May pack insulation into shells and frames to insulate heating equipment, such as furnaces, boilers, and ovens.
- May be designated according to structure worked on as bessemer-bottom maker; coke-oven mason; door repairer; furnace mason (constru.
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Who We Are
ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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