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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Straightening Press Operator Salary
in Camden, New Jersey
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$44,337 (USD)
Average Salary
$21/hr
Average Hourly
$1,086
Average Bonus
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Last updated: October 31, 2024
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The average pay for a Straightening Press Operator is $44,337 a year and $21 an hour in Camden, New Jersey, United States. The average salary range for a Straightening Press Operator is between $33,208 and $52,140. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Camden, New Jersey.
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 Camden, New Jersey
Camden Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Camden is a city in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan region. The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828. Camden has been the county seat of Camden County since the county's formation on March 13, 1844. The city derives its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Camden is made up of over 20 neighborhoods, and is part of the South Jersey region of the state.
The city has a long history, which traces back to local indigenous Lenape, who are believed to have inhabited this area 13–15,000 years prior to the first European settlers. Quakers eventually...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions: examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.
- Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.
- Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.
- Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.
- Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.
- May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.
- May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.
- May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.
- May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.
- May be designated according to part straightened as barrel straightener ii; crankshaft straightener; gear straightener; or according to type press operated as gag-press straightener.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Straightening Press Operator is $44,337 a year and $21 an hour in Camden, New Jersey, United States. The average salary range for a Straightening Press Operator is between $33,208 and $52,140. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Camden, New Jersey.
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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Straightening Press Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
Job family population: 450,370
Estimated population of Straightening Press Operator jobs: 2,013
Rate of error: 0.8%
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About Camden, New Jersey
Camden Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Camden is a city in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan region. The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828. Camden has been the county seat of Camden County since the county's formation on March 13, 1844. The city derives its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Camden is made up of over 20 neighborhoods, and is part of the South Jersey region of the state.
The city has a long history, which traces back to local indigenous Lenape, who are believed to have inhabited this area 13–15,000 years prior to the first European settlers. Quakers eventually...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions: examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.
- Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.
- Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.
- Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.
- Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.
- May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.
- May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.
- May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.
- May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.
- May be designated according to part straightened as barrel straightener ii; crankshaft straightener; gear straightener; or according to type press operated as gag-press straightener.
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ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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