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Last updated: April 15, 2024
Precision Lens Polisher Salary
in New York-Manhattan, New York
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$40,355 (USD)
Average Salary
$19/hr
Average Hourly
$504
Average Bonus
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Last updated: April 15, 2024
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The average pay for a Precision Lens Polisher is $40,355 a year and $19 an hour in New York-Manhattan, New York, United States. The average salary range for a Precision Lens Polisher is between $30,670 and $46,974. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in New York-Manhattan, New York.
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:
$45,330
5 Year Change:
12 %
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Job Summary
Description:
- Operates polishing machines to polish ophthalmic lenses or optical elements, such as lenses, prisms, and flats for use as contact or eyeglass lenses or in precision optical instruments: mounts optical element on holding tool, using tape or cement.
- Selects lap i, according to size of optical element and applies pitch or other adhesive to polishing face of lap.
- Presses optical element into adhesive to form polishing surface.
- Mounts holding tool on polishing machine spindle and positions lap and element assembly over tool.
- Applies abrasive, or positions abrasive flow nozzle over element, and starts machine that polishes element.
- Observes polishing operation and periodically stops machine to rinse element with water and to test element for conformance to specifications, using test lens, monochromatic light, microscope, and power determining and optical centering instruments.
- May guide polishing lap manually over element.
- May mix adhesive according to formula.
- May be designated according to type of lens polished as contact-lens polisher.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Precision Lens Polisher is $40,355 a year and $19 an hour in New York-Manhattan, New York, United States. The average salary range for a Precision Lens Polisher is between $30,670 and $46,974. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in New York-Manhattan, New York.
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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Precision Lens Polisher Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
Job family population: 20,200
Estimated population of Precision Lens Polisher jobs: 1,063
Rate of error: 4.9%
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About New York-Manhattan, New York
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Job Summary
Description:
- Operates polishing machines to polish ophthalmic lenses or optical elements, such as lenses, prisms, and flats for use as contact or eyeglass lenses or in precision optical instruments: mounts optical element on holding tool, using tape or cement.
- Selects lap i, according to size of optical element and applies pitch or other adhesive to polishing face of lap.
- Presses optical element into adhesive to form polishing surface.
- Mounts holding tool on polishing machine spindle and positions lap and element assembly over tool.
- Applies abrasive, or positions abrasive flow nozzle over element, and starts machine that polishes element.
- Observes polishing operation and periodically stops machine to rinse element with water and to test element for conformance to specifications, using test lens, monochromatic light, microscope, and power determining and optical centering instruments.
- May guide polishing lap manually over element.
- May mix adhesive according to formula.
- May be designated according to type of lens polished as contact-lens polisher.
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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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National Compensation Forecast January 2024
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