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Flame Spray Operator Salary
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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$36,757 (USD)
Average Salary
$18/hr
Average Hourly
$478
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Flame Spray Operator is $36,757 a year and $18 an hour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The average salary range for a Flame Spray Operator is between $27,972 and $42,749. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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:
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About Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Cost of Living Score:
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Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the second-most populous city in the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Philadelphia is known for its extensive contributions to United States history, especially the American Revolution, and served as the nation's capital until 1800. It maintains contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports, and music. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley...
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates flame-spray equipment and machine tools to build up worn parts, such as crankshafts, motor shafts, clutch plates, and piston rods, and to salvage defective machined parts, according to specifications: washes object with solvents, or heats object with torch or in furnace to remove impurities, such as grease or paint.
- Operates machines, such as engine lathes and external grinders, to undercut or groove surface of object.
- Cleans and roughens surface of object in sand or shotblast cabinet cabinet-abrasive sandblaster or by electrobonding process.
- Preheats object for spraying, using oxyacetylene torch or metalizing gun.
- Sprays metal or other material on object by either of following methods: (1) positions and clamps metalizing gun to engine lathe carriage.
- Selects nozzle to accommodate size of wire to be sprayed and screws nozzle into place on metalizing gun.
- Inserts wire to be sprayed into rear of gun and through feed rollers and nozzle.
- Connects hoses from gun to air compressor and tanks of oxygen and fuel gas, such as acetylene.
- Turns knobs to synchronize speed of wire feed, air pressure, flow of oxygen and fuel indicated on dials to specifications computed from data charts.
- Installs gears in lathe and turns knobs to synchronize rotating speed of chuck and movement of carriage with rate of spray to achieve specified coating on workpiece.
- Ignites gases to melt wire and presses button or trigger to release compressed air which atomizes and sprays molten metal onto workpiece. (2) pours specified powder of metal or other material,.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Flame Spray Operator is $36,757 a year and $18 an hour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The average salary range for a Flame Spray Operator is between $27,972 and $42,749. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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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Flame Spray Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Job family population: 32,050
Estimated population of Flame Spray Operator jobs: 577
Rate of error: 2.0%
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About Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the second-most populous city in the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Philadelphia is known for its extensive contributions to United States history, especially the American Revolution, and served as the nation's capital until 1800. It maintains contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports, and music. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley...
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates flame-spray equipment and machine tools to build up worn parts, such as crankshafts, motor shafts, clutch plates, and piston rods, and to salvage defective machined parts, according to specifications: washes object with solvents, or heats object with torch or in furnace to remove impurities, such as grease or paint.
- Operates machines, such as engine lathes and external grinders, to undercut or groove surface of object.
- Cleans and roughens surface of object in sand or shotblast cabinet cabinet-abrasive sandblaster or by electrobonding process.
- Preheats object for spraying, using oxyacetylene torch or metalizing gun.
- Sprays metal or other material on object by either of following methods: (1) positions and clamps metalizing gun to engine lathe carriage.
- Selects nozzle to accommodate size of wire to be sprayed and screws nozzle into place on metalizing gun.
- Inserts wire to be sprayed into rear of gun and through feed rollers and nozzle.
- Connects hoses from gun to air compressor and tanks of oxygen and fuel gas, such as acetylene.
- Turns knobs to synchronize speed of wire feed, air pressure, flow of oxygen and fuel indicated on dials to specifications computed from data charts.
- Installs gears in lathe and turns knobs to synchronize rotating speed of chuck and movement of carriage with rate of spray to achieve specified coating on workpiece.
- Ignites gases to melt wire and presses button or trigger to release compressed air which atomizes and sprays molten metal onto workpiece. (2) pours specified powder of metal or other material,.
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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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