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Loading Unit Tool Setter Salary
in Bristol, Virginia

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$45,417 (USD)

Average Salary

$22/hr

Average Hourly

$677

Average Bonus

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Loading Unit Tool Setter is $45,417 a year and $22 an hour in Bristol, Virginia, United States. The average salary range for a Loading Unit Tool Setter is between $33,200 and $54,183. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Bristol, Virginia.

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:
$51,015
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Bristol, Virginia

Bristol Cost of Living Score:

Description: Bristol is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,219. It is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee, just across the state line, which runs down the middle of its main street, State Street. It is surrounded on three sides by Washington County, Virginia, which is combined with the city for statistical purposes. It is a principal city in the Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area, which had a population of 307,614 in 2020. The metro area is a component of the larger Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, with a population of 508,260 in 2020.
Description:
  • Sets up series of machines to load platefuls of small arms cartridges with powder and bullets: changes setting screws on eccentric arm of shakers to adjust length of stroke of shaker table according to caliber and style of cartridge and bullet processed.
  • Installs powder volume plate in loading unit and inserts blocks of punches and collets in presses to seat and crimp bullets, using handtools.
  • Turns setscrews, stop nuts, and turnbuckles to adjust, by trial and error, side guides, backstops, conveyor fingers, and stroke of press gates, using height gauges.
  • Distributes plates to each work station according to work requirements.
  • Empties powder from volume plate into tray and weighs it, dividing by number of cartridges in plate to determine if total load and average per cartridge are within weights specified.
  • Changes volume plate for one with larger or smaller cavities until total and average loads meet specifications.
  • Observes unit in operation to detect malfunctioning.
  • Starts machine to load plate of cartridges and sends samples to ballistics laboratory for approval before releasing unit to operating crew.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Loading Unit Tool Setter is $45,417 a year and $22 an hour in Bristol, Virginia, United States. The average salary range for a Loading Unit Tool Setter is between $33,200 and $54,183. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Bristol, Virginia.

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

Loading Unit Tool Setter Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Food Processing Workers, All Other

Job family population: 63,970

Estimated population of Loading Unit Tool Setter jobs: 131

Rate of error: 1.8%

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Bristol Cost of Living Score:

Description: Bristol is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,219. It is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee, just across the state line, which runs down the middle of its main street, State Street. It is surrounded on three sides by Washington County, Virginia, which is combined with the city for statistical purposes. It is a principal city in the Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area, which had a population of 307,614 in 2020. The metro area is a component of the larger Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, with a population of 508,260 in 2020.
Description:
  • Sets up series of machines to load platefuls of small arms cartridges with powder and bullets: changes setting screws on eccentric arm of shakers to adjust length of stroke of shaker table according to caliber and style of cartridge and bullet processed.
  • Installs powder volume plate in loading unit and inserts blocks of punches and collets in presses to seat and crimp bullets, using handtools.
  • Turns setscrews, stop nuts, and turnbuckles to adjust, by trial and error, side guides, backstops, conveyor fingers, and stroke of press gates, using height gauges.
  • Distributes plates to each work station according to work requirements.
  • Empties powder from volume plate into tray and weighs it, dividing by number of cartridges in plate to determine if total load and average per cartridge are within weights specified.
  • Changes volume plate for one with larger or smaller cavities until total and average loads meet specifications.
  • Observes unit in operation to detect malfunctioning.
  • Starts machine to load plate of cartridges and sends samples to ballistics laboratory for approval before releasing unit to operating crew.
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