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Section Leader & Machine Setter Salary
in Garden City, Kansas

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$38,559 (USD)

Average Salary

$19/hr

Average Hourly

$829

Average Bonus

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Section Leader & Machine Setter is $38,559 a year and $19 an hour in Garden City, Kansas, United States. The average salary range for a Section Leader & Machine Setter is between $28,611 and $45,615. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Garden City, Kansas.

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:
$43,312
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Garden City, Kansas

Garden City Cost of Living Score:

Description: Garden City is a city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 28,151. The city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in western Kansas.
Description:
  • Sets up, adjusts, and repairs group of textile machines (usually of one type, called section): transmits orders of supervisor of section to workers and ensures that orders and safety rules are followed.
  • Patrols section to inspect work for quality and to determine operating condition of machinery.
  • Reads production meters or tickets and records total number of units produced.
  • Examines laboratory sample reports to determine machine adjustments needed to meet company specifications.
  • Adjusts and repairs machines machine fixer.
  • Trains new workers and assigns workers to stations.
  • May be designated according to section as section leader and machine setter, cards; section leader and machine setter, drawing and combers; section leader and machine setter, opening and picking; section leader and machine setter, roving frames; section leader and machine setter, spinning; section leader and machine setter, winding and twisting.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for a Section Leader & Machine Setter is $38,559 a year and $19 an hour in Garden City, Kansas, United States. The average salary range for a Section Leader & Machine Setter is between $28,611 and $45,615. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Garden City, Kansas.

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

Section Leader & Machine Setter Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

Job family population: 671,160

Estimated population of Section Leader & Machine Setter jobs: 35,847

Rate of error: 0.3%

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Garden City Cost of Living Score:

Description: Garden City is a city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 28,151. The city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in western Kansas.
Description:
  • Sets up, adjusts, and repairs group of textile machines (usually of one type, called section): transmits orders of supervisor of section to workers and ensures that orders and safety rules are followed.
  • Patrols section to inspect work for quality and to determine operating condition of machinery.
  • Reads production meters or tickets and records total number of units produced.
  • Examines laboratory sample reports to determine machine adjustments needed to meet company specifications.
  • Adjusts and repairs machines machine fixer.
  • Trains new workers and assigns workers to stations.
  • May be designated according to section as section leader and machine setter, cards; section leader and machine setter, drawing and combers; section leader and machine setter, opening and picking; section leader and machine setter, roving frames; section leader and machine setter, spinning; section leader and machine setter, winding and twisting.
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