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Last updated: April 17, 2024
Grinder Setup Operator Salary
in Louisville, Kentucky
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$52,739 (USD)
Average Salary
$25/hr
Average Hourly
$923
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Grinder Setup Operator is $52,739 a year and $25 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for a Grinder Setup Operator is between $38,183 and $63,234. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky.
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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5 Year Change:
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About Louisville, Kentucky
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Louisville (varying pronunciations: LOO-ee-vil, US: LOO-ə-vəl, locally LUUV-əl) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates and prepares grinding machines to grind threads on metal objects, such as screws, bolts, and micrometer spindles, and to grind internal and external surfaces of metal work pieces to specifications, following tooling instructions, standard charts, blueprints, and job orders, applying knowledge of grinding procedures.
- Reads blueprint and job order for product specifications, such as dimensions, tolerances, and number of parts to be ground, and tooling instructions, such as grinding speeds, feed rates, holding fixtures, and grinding wheel to be used.
- Mounts wheel on spindle, using wrenches.
- Dresses wheel to specifications, using dressing device.
- Sets machine controls to specified grinding speeds, feed rates, and angle of wheel.
- Positions and tightens cams and stops to control depth of cut and length of stroke.
- Lifts and positions work piece, manually or using hoist, and secures work piece on faceplate or magnetic chuck, in fixture or chuck, or directly to machine table.
- Starts machine and activates controls to feed wheel against work piece or vice versa, or engages automatic feeding device.
- Verifies dimensions of finished work piece for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as micrometers, calipers, preset gauges, load test equipment, thread measuring wires, and thread gauges.
- Changes worn grinding wheel, using wrenches.
- May place work piece in hopper or fixture of automatic feeding device.
- May grind nonmetallic materials.
- May be required to have experience with custom or production work or with specific type of machine, material, or product.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Grinder Setup Operator is $52,739 a year and $25 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for a Grinder Setup Operator is between $38,183 and $63,234. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky.
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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Grinder Setup Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Job family population: 73,800
Estimated population of Grinder Setup Operator jobs: 3,029
Rate of error: 1.2%
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About Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Louisville (varying pronunciations: LOO-ee-vil, US: LOO-ə-vəl, locally LUUV-əl) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates and prepares grinding machines to grind threads on metal objects, such as screws, bolts, and micrometer spindles, and to grind internal and external surfaces of metal work pieces to specifications, following tooling instructions, standard charts, blueprints, and job orders, applying knowledge of grinding procedures.
- Reads blueprint and job order for product specifications, such as dimensions, tolerances, and number of parts to be ground, and tooling instructions, such as grinding speeds, feed rates, holding fixtures, and grinding wheel to be used.
- Mounts wheel on spindle, using wrenches.
- Dresses wheel to specifications, using dressing device.
- Sets machine controls to specified grinding speeds, feed rates, and angle of wheel.
- Positions and tightens cams and stops to control depth of cut and length of stroke.
- Lifts and positions work piece, manually or using hoist, and secures work piece on faceplate or magnetic chuck, in fixture or chuck, or directly to machine table.
- Starts machine and activates controls to feed wheel against work piece or vice versa, or engages automatic feeding device.
- Verifies dimensions of finished work piece for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as micrometers, calipers, preset gauges, load test equipment, thread measuring wires, and thread gauges.
- Changes worn grinding wheel, using wrenches.
- May place work piece in hopper or fixture of automatic feeding device.
- May grind nonmetallic materials.
- May be required to have experience with custom or production work or with specific type of machine, material, or product.
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Who We Are
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