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Lead Bender Salary
in Austin, Texas
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$31,576 (USD)
Average Salary
$15/hr
Average Hourly
$395
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Lead Bender is $31,576 a year and $15 an hour in Austin, Texas, United States. The average salary range for a Lead Bender is between $24,219 and $36,502. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Austin, Texas.
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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$35,468
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About Austin, Texas
Austin Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Austin ( AW-stin, UK: OST-in) is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the tenth-most populous city in the United States, the fourth-most populous city in the state after Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately 80 miles (129 km) apart...
Job Summary
Description:
- Tends variety of machines that form and assemble electrical wire leads, performing any combination of following tasks: reads work order to determine information, such as type and sequence of assembly and color-coded wire to use.
- Places coil in vise or clamping device of machine and depresses pedal or turns lever to close clamps which shape coil lead.
- Feeds wire into foot shear to cut wire leads to specified lengths.
- Scrapes ends of lead wires to remove insulation, using knife and scraper, or adjusts stop guides and feeds wire into pedal-operated wire stripping machine which strips insulation from wires.
- Dips stripped leads into tinning pot and inserts into wire brush machine to smooth surfaces.
- Strings specified number of plastic beads or slides cotton sleeving over end of wire to insulate field coil lead.
- Inserts end of lead wire into bullet press and depresses pedal to automatically position lugs on end of wire and to activate upper die which crimps lugs around end of lead.
- Wraps cut lengths of insulated wire together, using waxed cord to form cables.
- Positions lugs on wire leads by hand, prior to inserting assembly in press or crimping machine.
- May be designated according to task performed as bead stringer; lead tinner; lugger; sleever; wire cutter; wire stripper.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Lead Bender is $31,576 a year and $15 an hour in Austin, Texas, United States. The average salary range for a Lead Bender is between $24,219 and $36,502. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Austin, Texas.
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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Lead Bender Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
Job family population: 21,030
Estimated population of Lead Bender jobs: 182
Rate of error: 3.6%
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About Austin, Texas
Austin Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Austin ( AW-stin, UK: OST-in) is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the tenth-most populous city in the United States, the fourth-most populous city in the state after Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately 80 miles (129 km) apart...
Job Summary
Description:
- Tends variety of machines that form and assemble electrical wire leads, performing any combination of following tasks: reads work order to determine information, such as type and sequence of assembly and color-coded wire to use.
- Places coil in vise or clamping device of machine and depresses pedal or turns lever to close clamps which shape coil lead.
- Feeds wire into foot shear to cut wire leads to specified lengths.
- Scrapes ends of lead wires to remove insulation, using knife and scraper, or adjusts stop guides and feeds wire into pedal-operated wire stripping machine which strips insulation from wires.
- Dips stripped leads into tinning pot and inserts into wire brush machine to smooth surfaces.
- Strings specified number of plastic beads or slides cotton sleeving over end of wire to insulate field coil lead.
- Inserts end of lead wire into bullet press and depresses pedal to automatically position lugs on end of wire and to activate upper die which crimps lugs around end of lead.
- Wraps cut lengths of insulated wire together, using waxed cord to form cables.
- Positions lugs on wire leads by hand, prior to inserting assembly in press or crimping machine.
- May be designated according to task performed as bead stringer; lead tinner; lugger; sleever; wire cutter; wire stripper.
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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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