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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator Salary
in Cullman, Alabama
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$34,061 (USD)
Average Salary
$16/hr
Average Hourly
$477
Average Bonus
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The average pay for an Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator is $34,061 a year and $16 an hour in Cullman, Alabama, United States. The average salary range for an Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator is between $25,546 and $39,987. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Cullman, Alabama.
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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About Cullman, Alabama
Cullman Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Birmingham and about 55 miles (89 km) south of Huntsville. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 18,213, with an estimated population of 19,251 in 2022.
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates one or more electrical-discharge machines to shape metal workpieces to specifications, following standard charts and manuals, and applying knowledge of electrical-discharge machining processes and methods, electric currents and circuitry, metal properties, and shop mathematics: examines blueprint of product and plans operations.
- Positions and secures workpiece on machine table with clamps, vise, or fixture.
- Positions and secures electrode in holder on surface plate, verifying concentricity, alignment, and depth, using measuring instruments, such as calipers and dial indicators.
- Mounts electrode and holder on machine spindle, using vernier dials on machine to verify alignment of electrode and workpiece.
- Positions gauge blocks, dial indicator, and spindle stop on machine so that descending electrode will stop at specified depth when indicator feeler point touches gauge blocks.
- Turns valve to adjust flow of dielectric coolant over electrode and workpiece or to immerse them in circulating bath.
- Turns controls to adjust machine setting, such as voltage, current, frequency, and electrode feed rate, according to information on charts or knowledge of electrical discharge machining procedures.
- Starts machine and observes beginning of operation.
- May move controls to rotate electrode or workpiece.
- May inspect completed workpiece visually and with templates and other measuring instruments.
- May compute settings from specifications and knowledge of machine capacities.
- May give tool maker specifications, such as allowances between blue.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for an Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator is $34,061 a year and $16 an hour in Cullman, Alabama, United States. The average salary range for an Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator is between $25,546 and $39,987. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Cullman, Alabama.
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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Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
Job family population: 20,370
Estimated population of Electrical Discharge Machine Setup Operator jobs: 304
Rate of error: 5.0%
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About Cullman, Alabama
Cullman Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Birmingham and about 55 miles (89 km) south of Huntsville. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 18,213, with an estimated population of 19,251 in 2022.
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates one or more electrical-discharge machines to shape metal workpieces to specifications, following standard charts and manuals, and applying knowledge of electrical-discharge machining processes and methods, electric currents and circuitry, metal properties, and shop mathematics: examines blueprint of product and plans operations.
- Positions and secures workpiece on machine table with clamps, vise, or fixture.
- Positions and secures electrode in holder on surface plate, verifying concentricity, alignment, and depth, using measuring instruments, such as calipers and dial indicators.
- Mounts electrode and holder on machine spindle, using vernier dials on machine to verify alignment of electrode and workpiece.
- Positions gauge blocks, dial indicator, and spindle stop on machine so that descending electrode will stop at specified depth when indicator feeler point touches gauge blocks.
- Turns valve to adjust flow of dielectric coolant over electrode and workpiece or to immerse them in circulating bath.
- Turns controls to adjust machine setting, such as voltage, current, frequency, and electrode feed rate, according to information on charts or knowledge of electrical discharge machining procedures.
- Starts machine and observes beginning of operation.
- May move controls to rotate electrode or workpiece.
- May inspect completed workpiece visually and with templates and other measuring instruments.
- May compute settings from specifications and knowledge of machine capacities.
- May give tool maker specifications, such as allowances between blue.
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