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Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator Salary
in Cincinnati, Ohio

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$52,028 (USD)

Average Salary

$25/hr

Average Hourly

$796

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The average pay for a Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator is $52,028 a year and $25 an hour in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The average salary range for a Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator is between $37,825 and $62,226. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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:
$58,442
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati Cost of Living Score:

Description: Cincinnati ( SIN-si-NAT-ee, nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Settled in 1788, the city is located in the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The population of Cincinnati was 309,317 in 2020, making it the third-most populous city in Ohio after Columbus and Cleveland, and 65th in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the nation's 30th-largest with over 2.265 million residents.Throughout...
Description:
  • Operates water plant equipment that scrubs and purifies gases from smelting furnaces.
  • Starts pumps and fans in scrubber towers and turns valves to regulate flow of water through nozzles.
  • Pulls lever to open car bottom to unload lime from hopper cars into storage tanks.
  • Knocks on bottom of hopper with pry bar or uses portable vibrator to loosen lime remaining in car.
  • Dumps specified number of sacks of sulfate, hydroxide, and fluoride into mixer machines.
  • Starts conveyors to transport mixed chemicals and lime to reactor tanks that make reagent solution.
  • Observes control panel, records readings, and calculates solution temperatures, scrubber fan loads, and flow of treatment solutions, using charts and graphs.
  • Changes basket screens in reactor tanks, using chain hoist, and cleans screens with water or steam.
  • Collects samples of treatment solutions and sludge for laboratory analysis.
  • Measures acidity or alkalinity of clarifier overflow to determine efficiency of impurity recovery, using pH meter.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator is $52,028 a year and $25 an hour in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The average salary range for a Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator is between $37,825 and $62,226. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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

Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators

Job family population: 119,350

Estimated population of Chemical Water Treatment Plant Operator jobs: 216

Rate of error: 1.2%

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Cincinnati Cost of Living Score:

Description: Cincinnati ( SIN-si-NAT-ee, nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Settled in 1788, the city is located in the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The population of Cincinnati was 309,317 in 2020, making it the third-most populous city in Ohio after Columbus and Cleveland, and 65th in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the nation's 30th-largest with over 2.265 million residents.Throughout...
Description:
  • Operates water plant equipment that scrubs and purifies gases from smelting furnaces.
  • Starts pumps and fans in scrubber towers and turns valves to regulate flow of water through nozzles.
  • Pulls lever to open car bottom to unload lime from hopper cars into storage tanks.
  • Knocks on bottom of hopper with pry bar or uses portable vibrator to loosen lime remaining in car.
  • Dumps specified number of sacks of sulfate, hydroxide, and fluoride into mixer machines.
  • Starts conveyors to transport mixed chemicals and lime to reactor tanks that make reagent solution.
  • Observes control panel, records readings, and calculates solution temperatures, scrubber fan loads, and flow of treatment solutions, using charts and graphs.
  • Changes basket screens in reactor tanks, using chain hoist, and cleans screens with water or steam.
  • Collects samples of treatment solutions and sludge for laboratory analysis.
  • Measures acidity or alkalinity of clarifier overflow to determine efficiency of impurity recovery, using pH meter.
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