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Last updated: April 16, 2024
Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator Salary
in Louisville, Kentucky
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$39,054 (USD)
Average Salary
$19/hr
Average Hourly
$562
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator is $39,054 a year and $19 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator is between $29,173 and $46,006. On average, a High School Degree is the highest level of education for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Estimated salary in 2029:
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5 Year Change:
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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 horizontal boring, drilling, and milling machine to perform machining operations, such as milling, drilling, boring, and reaming metal work pieces, such as machine, tool, or die parts, analyzing specifications and deciding on tooling according to knowledge of shop mathematics, metal properties, and machining procedures.
- Examines machining instructions, such as job order, blueprint, process sheet, or layout on work piece to determine machining required, sequence of operation, tooling, feed, and speed rate, applying knowledge of materials and machining.
- Lifts work piece either manually or with crane or hoist onto machine table or directs monorail crane operator to put work piece on machine table.
- Positions and secures work piece to table or angle plate, using clamps, shims, and parallel blocks and verifies position with such instruments as dial indicators, gauge blocks, and height gauges.
- Selects and mounts tool in spindle.
- Moves controls to set feeds, speeds, and depth of cut, and to position tool and work piece in relation to each other, verifying position visually, with instruments, such as thickness gauges, and by reading dials.
- Starts machine and observes operation, making one or more trial passes with manual control before engaging feed.
- Verifies dimensions of machined work piece with such measuring instruments as micrometers, telescoping gauges, vernier calipers, and dial indicators.
- Works to tolerance of plus or minus 0.001 inch.
- May use precision positioning devices, such as dial indicators mounted on machine troughs with standard le.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator is $39,054 a year and $19 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator is between $29,173 and $46,006. On average, a High School Degree is the highest level of education for a Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator. 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.
Find actuarial salary survey data and benchmark salary and pay.
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Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Job family population: 6,470
Estimated population of Horizontal Boring Drilling & Milling Machine Operator jobs: 880
Rate of error: 4.1%
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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 horizontal boring, drilling, and milling machine to perform machining operations, such as milling, drilling, boring, and reaming metal work pieces, such as machine, tool, or die parts, analyzing specifications and deciding on tooling according to knowledge of shop mathematics, metal properties, and machining procedures.
- Examines machining instructions, such as job order, blueprint, process sheet, or layout on work piece to determine machining required, sequence of operation, tooling, feed, and speed rate, applying knowledge of materials and machining.
- Lifts work piece either manually or with crane or hoist onto machine table or directs monorail crane operator to put work piece on machine table.
- Positions and secures work piece to table or angle plate, using clamps, shims, and parallel blocks and verifies position with such instruments as dial indicators, gauge blocks, and height gauges.
- Selects and mounts tool in spindle.
- Moves controls to set feeds, speeds, and depth of cut, and to position tool and work piece in relation to each other, verifying position visually, with instruments, such as thickness gauges, and by reading dials.
- Starts machine and observes operation, making one or more trial passes with manual control before engaging feed.
- Verifies dimensions of machined work piece with such measuring instruments as micrometers, telescoping gauges, vernier calipers, and dial indicators.
- Works to tolerance of plus or minus 0.001 inch.
- May use precision positioning devices, such as dial indicators mounted on machine troughs with standard le.
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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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