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Cottage Cheese Maker Salary
in Canso, Nova Scotia

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$44,460 (CAD)

Average Salary

$21/hr

Average Hourly

$605

Average Bonus

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The average pay for a Cottage Cheese Maker is $44,460 a year and $21 an hour in Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada. The average salary range for a Cottage Cheese Maker is between $32,989 and $52,552. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Canso, Nova Scotia.

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Estimated salary in 2029:
$48,780
5 Year Change:
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About Canso, Nova Scotia

Canso Cost of Living Score:

Description: Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the Municipality of the District of Guysborough. The area was settled in 1604, along with the original Port-Royal. The construction of a British fort in the village in 1720 was instrumental in contributing to the outbreak of Dummer's War in 1722. The town is of national historic importance because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax (1749). Canso...
Description:
  • Controls equipment to make cottage cheese from milk: washes cheese vat and tools with sterilizing solution and rinse water.
  • Turns valves and observes meters to convey specified amounts of milk and culture into vat.
  • May add rennet to coagulate milk, and dye to tint curd.
  • Turns steam and water valves and observes thermometer and clock to heat milk for specified time and at specified temperature to incubate culture.
  • Starts agitator in vat and stirs ingredients, using paddle.
  • Tests sample of whey for acidity and cuts curd with knife to allow seepage of whey.
  • Observes thermometer and adjusts steam and water valves to cook curd at slowly increasing temperature.
  • Feels and breaks sample of curd to determine when it is sufficiently cooked.
  • Turns cold water and drain valves or sprays curd with chlorinated water to wash curd and remove whey.
  • When making baker's cheese, drains uncooked whole curd from vat into porous bags to remove whey and dumps curd into blending machine to distribute residual moisture.
  • When making creamed cottage cheese, adds cream and stirs with paddle or starts agitator.
  • Records processing steps.
  • May taste cheese for salt and acid content.
  • May pasteurize milk.
  • May make culture.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Cottage Cheese Maker is $44,460 a year and $21 an hour in Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada. The average salary range for a Cottage Cheese Maker is between $32,989 and $52,552. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Canso, Nova Scotia.

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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Canso Cost of Living Score:

Description: Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the Municipality of the District of Guysborough. The area was settled in 1604, along with the original Port-Royal. The construction of a British fort in the village in 1720 was instrumental in contributing to the outbreak of Dummer's War in 1722. The town is of national historic importance because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax (1749). Canso...
Description:
  • Controls equipment to make cottage cheese from milk: washes cheese vat and tools with sterilizing solution and rinse water.
  • Turns valves and observes meters to convey specified amounts of milk and culture into vat.
  • May add rennet to coagulate milk, and dye to tint curd.
  • Turns steam and water valves and observes thermometer and clock to heat milk for specified time and at specified temperature to incubate culture.
  • Starts agitator in vat and stirs ingredients, using paddle.
  • Tests sample of whey for acidity and cuts curd with knife to allow seepage of whey.
  • Observes thermometer and adjusts steam and water valves to cook curd at slowly increasing temperature.
  • Feels and breaks sample of curd to determine when it is sufficiently cooked.
  • Turns cold water and drain valves or sprays curd with chlorinated water to wash curd and remove whey.
  • When making baker's cheese, drains uncooked whole curd from vat into porous bags to remove whey and dumps curd into blending machine to distribute residual moisture.
  • When making creamed cottage cheese, adds cream and stirs with paddle or starts agitator.
  • Records processing steps.
  • May taste cheese for salt and acid content.
  • May pasteurize milk.
  • May make culture.
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