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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Sound Recording Technician Salary
in West Jordan, Utah
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$61,414 (USD)
Average Salary
$30/hr
Average Hourly
$1,173
Average Bonus
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Last updated: October 31, 2024
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The average pay for a Sound Recording Technician is $61,414 a year and $30 an hour in West Jordan, Utah, United States. The average salary range for a Sound Recording Technician is between $43,911 and $74,065. On average, a Bachelor's Degree is the highest level of education for a Sound Recording Technician. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in West Jordan, Utah.
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:
$68,984
5 Year Change:
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About West Jordan, Utah
West Jordan Cost of Living Score:
Description:
West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. According to the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 116,961, placing it as the third most populous in the state. The city occupies the southwest end of the Salt Lake Valley at an elevation of 4,330 feet (1,320 m). Named after the nearby Jordan River, the limits of the city begin on the river's western bank and end in the eastern foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains, where Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's largest man-made excavation, is located.
Settled in the mid-19th century, the city has developed into its own...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates disk or tape recording machine to record music, dialog, or sound effects of phonograph recording sessions, radio broadcasts, television shows, training courses, or conferences, or to transfer transcribed material to sound-recording medium: threads tape through recording device or places blank disk on turntable.
- Moves lever to regulate speed of turntable.
- Places cutting stylus on record.
- Examines grooves during cutting by stylus to determine if grooves are level, using microscope.
- Turns knobs on cutting arm to shift or adjust weight of stylus and cause grooves to be cut evenly.
- Starts recording machine and moves switches to open microphone and tune in live or recorded programs.
- Listens through earphone to detect imperfections of recording machines or extraneous noises emanating from recording studio or production stage.
- Observes dials, mounted on machine, to ensure that volume level and intensity remain within specified limits.
- Removes filled reel or completed recordings from machine and attaches identifying labels.
- Keeps record of recordings in logbook.
- May service and repair recording machines and allied equipment.
- May be designated according to type of machine used as disk-recording-machine operator; tape-recording-machine operator.
- When transcribing to disk used in production of phonograph records, may be designated dubbing-machine operator.
- When recording live television programs in monochrome or color on magnetic tape is designated videotape-recording engineer.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Sound Recording Technician is $61,414 a year and $30 an hour in West Jordan, Utah, United States. The average salary range for a Sound Recording Technician is between $43,911 and $74,065. On average, a Bachelor's Degree is the highest level of education for a Sound Recording Technician. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in West Jordan, Utah.
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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Sound Recording Technician Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Sound Engineering Technicians
Job family population: 14,600
Estimated population of Sound Recording Technician jobs: 1,960
Rate of error: 7.4%
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About West Jordan, Utah
West Jordan Cost of Living Score:
Description:
West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. According to the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 116,961, placing it as the third most populous in the state. The city occupies the southwest end of the Salt Lake Valley at an elevation of 4,330 feet (1,320 m). Named after the nearby Jordan River, the limits of the city begin on the river's western bank and end in the eastern foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains, where Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's largest man-made excavation, is located.
Settled in the mid-19th century, the city has developed into its own...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates disk or tape recording machine to record music, dialog, or sound effects of phonograph recording sessions, radio broadcasts, television shows, training courses, or conferences, or to transfer transcribed material to sound-recording medium: threads tape through recording device or places blank disk on turntable.
- Moves lever to regulate speed of turntable.
- Places cutting stylus on record.
- Examines grooves during cutting by stylus to determine if grooves are level, using microscope.
- Turns knobs on cutting arm to shift or adjust weight of stylus and cause grooves to be cut evenly.
- Starts recording machine and moves switches to open microphone and tune in live or recorded programs.
- Listens through earphone to detect imperfections of recording machines or extraneous noises emanating from recording studio or production stage.
- Observes dials, mounted on machine, to ensure that volume level and intensity remain within specified limits.
- Removes filled reel or completed recordings from machine and attaches identifying labels.
- Keeps record of recordings in logbook.
- May service and repair recording machines and allied equipment.
- May be designated according to type of machine used as disk-recording-machine operator; tape-recording-machine operator.
- When transcribing to disk used in production of phonograph records, may be designated dubbing-machine operator.
- When recording live television programs in monochrome or color on magnetic tape is designated videotape-recording engineer.
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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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