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Freezer Operator Salary
in Birmingham, Alabama

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$36,924 (USD)

Average Salary

$18/hr

Average Hourly

$502

Average Bonus

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The average pay for a Freezer Operator is $36,924 a year and $18 an hour in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The average salary range for a Freezer Operator is between $27,619 and $43,422. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Estimated salary in 2029:
$41,475
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Cost of Living Score:

Description: Birmingham ( BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910, down 2% from the 2020 census, making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian...
Description:
  • Operates one or more continuous freezers and other equipment to freeze ice cream mix into semisolid consistency.
  • Weighs or measures powder and liquid ingredients, such as color, flavoring, or fruit puree, using graduate, and dumps ingredients into flavor vat.
  • Starts agitator to blend contents.
  • Starts pumps and turns valves to force mix into freezer barrels, admit refrigerant into freezer coils, and inject air into mix.
  • Starts beater, scraper, and expeller blades to mix contents with air and prevent adherence of mixture to barrel walls.
  • Observes ammeter and pressure gauge and adjusts controls to obtain specified freezing temperature, air pressure, and machine speed.
  • Fills hopper of fruit feeder with candy bits, fruit, and nuts, using scoop, or pours syrups into holder of rippling pump.
  • Sets controls according to freezer speed to feed or ripple ingredients evenly into ice cream expelled from freezer.
  • Opens valve to transfer contents to filling machine that pumps ice cream into cartons, cups, and cones, or molds for pies, rolls, and tarts.
  • Places novelty dies in filler head that separates flavors and forms center designs or rosettes in packaged product.
  • Weighs package and adjusts freezer air valve or switch on filler head to obtain specified amount of product in each container.
  • Assembles pipes, fittings, and equipment for operation, using wrench.
  • Sprays equipment with sterilizing solution.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Freezer Operator is $36,924 a year and $18 an hour in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The average salary range for a Freezer Operator is between $27,619 and $43,422. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Birmingham, 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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Job Statistics

Freezer Operator Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders

Job family population: 6,420

Estimated population of Freezer Operator jobs: 290

Rate of error: 3.0%

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Birmingham Cost of Living Score:

Description: Birmingham ( BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910, down 2% from the 2020 census, making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian...
Description:
  • Operates one or more continuous freezers and other equipment to freeze ice cream mix into semisolid consistency.
  • Weighs or measures powder and liquid ingredients, such as color, flavoring, or fruit puree, using graduate, and dumps ingredients into flavor vat.
  • Starts agitator to blend contents.
  • Starts pumps and turns valves to force mix into freezer barrels, admit refrigerant into freezer coils, and inject air into mix.
  • Starts beater, scraper, and expeller blades to mix contents with air and prevent adherence of mixture to barrel walls.
  • Observes ammeter and pressure gauge and adjusts controls to obtain specified freezing temperature, air pressure, and machine speed.
  • Fills hopper of fruit feeder with candy bits, fruit, and nuts, using scoop, or pours syrups into holder of rippling pump.
  • Sets controls according to freezer speed to feed or ripple ingredients evenly into ice cream expelled from freezer.
  • Opens valve to transfer contents to filling machine that pumps ice cream into cartons, cups, and cones, or molds for pies, rolls, and tarts.
  • Places novelty dies in filler head that separates flavors and forms center designs or rosettes in packaged product.
  • Weighs package and adjusts freezer air valve or switch on filler head to obtain specified amount of product in each container.
  • Assembles pipes, fittings, and equipment for operation, using wrench.
  • Sprays equipment with sterilizing solution.
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