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Puff Iron Operator - Hand Salary
in Richmond, Virginia
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$36,008 (USD)
Average Salary
$17/hr
Average Hourly
$522
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Puff Iron Operator - Hand is $36,008 a year and $17 an hour in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The average salary range for a Puff Iron Operator - Hand is between $27,222 and $42,058. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Richmond, 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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About Richmond, Virginia
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Description:
Richmond ( RICH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. The Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.3 million residents, is the Commonwealth's third-most populous.
Richmond is located at the James River's fall line, 44 mi (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 mi (106 km) east of Charlottesville, 91 mi (146 km) east of Lynchburg and 92 mi (148 km) south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by...
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Description:
- Presses drycleaned and wet-cleaned silk and synthetic fiber garments, using hot-head press or steamtable, puff irons, and hand iron: operates machine presses to finish those parts that can be pressed flat and completes other parts of garments by pressing with hand iron.
- Finishes parts difficult to reach, such as flounces, by fitting parts over puff irons.
- Finishes velvet garments by steaming on buck of hot-head press or steamtable, and brushing pile (nap) with handbrush.
- Finishes fancy garments, such as evening gowns and costumes, with hand iron, applying knowledge of fabrics and heats to produce high quality finishes which cannot be obtained on machine presses.
- Presses ties on small pressing machine or by inserting heated metal form into tie and touching up rough places with hand iron.
- Finishes pleated garments, determining size of pleat from evidence of old pleat or from work order (for new garments) and presses with machine press or hand iron.
- May press wool fabrics requiring precision finishing.
- In establishments where many silk finishers are employed may be designated according to specialty as finisher, hand; form-finishing-machine operator; hot-head-machine operator; pleat presser; puff-iron operator i; tie presser; velvet steamer.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Puff Iron Operator - Hand is $36,008 a year and $17 an hour in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The average salary range for a Puff Iron Operator - Hand is between $27,222 and $42,058. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Richmond, 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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Puff Iron Operator - Hand Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials
Job family population: 28,570
Estimated population of Puff Iron Operator - Hand jobs: 13,595
Rate of error: 2.9%
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About Richmond, Virginia
Richmond Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Richmond ( RICH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. The Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.3 million residents, is the Commonwealth's third-most populous.
Richmond is located at the James River's fall line, 44 mi (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 mi (106 km) east of Charlottesville, 91 mi (146 km) east of Lynchburg and 92 mi (148 km) south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by...
Job Summary
Description:
- Presses drycleaned and wet-cleaned silk and synthetic fiber garments, using hot-head press or steamtable, puff irons, and hand iron: operates machine presses to finish those parts that can be pressed flat and completes other parts of garments by pressing with hand iron.
- Finishes parts difficult to reach, such as flounces, by fitting parts over puff irons.
- Finishes velvet garments by steaming on buck of hot-head press or steamtable, and brushing pile (nap) with handbrush.
- Finishes fancy garments, such as evening gowns and costumes, with hand iron, applying knowledge of fabrics and heats to produce high quality finishes which cannot be obtained on machine presses.
- Presses ties on small pressing machine or by inserting heated metal form into tie and touching up rough places with hand iron.
- Finishes pleated garments, determining size of pleat from evidence of old pleat or from work order (for new garments) and presses with machine press or hand iron.
- May press wool fabrics requiring precision finishing.
- In establishments where many silk finishers are employed may be designated according to specialty as finisher, hand; form-finishing-machine operator; hot-head-machine operator; pleat presser; puff-iron operator i; tie presser; velvet steamer.
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