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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Track Surfacing Machine Operator Salary
in Locust Grove, Georgia
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$64,194 (USD)
Average Salary
$31/hr
Average Hourly
$1,316
Average Bonus
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Last updated: October 31, 2024
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The average pay for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator is $64,194 a year and $31 an hour in Locust Grove, Georgia, United States. The average salary range for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator is between $45,898 and $77,418. On average, a Less Than HS Degree is the highest level of education for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Locust Grove, Georgia.
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 Locust Grove, Georgia
Locust Grove Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Locust Grove is a city in Henry County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,947 in 2020. Some unincorporated communities such as Luella and many rural areas surround Locust Grove, and those communities have Locust Grove postal addresses.
Locust Grove has experienced a growth in population and in businesses coming into the area. In 1900 the population of the city was 254 and is now over 5,000.
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates one or more machines mounted on flat-bed railroad trucks to spread, shape, and tamp ballast; raise, level, and align track; and prepare track foundation of crushed stone according to specifications: moves levers and brake pedal to guide machine into position.
- Adjusts controls to activate jacks, tampers, and scraper blades.
- Strings wire guidelines through leveling or aligning fixture.
- Attaches line to rails or trailer extensions (buggies) coupled to machine to set up equipment.
- Turns wheels to adjust guidelines for track alignments and grades, following specifications.
- Observes indicator arms to verify level and alignment of track.
- When concerned with jack-tamping machine, may be designated jack-tamp operator.
- May control track-lining machine and be designated track-liner operator.
- May operate machines that lay ties and lay rails to construct, repair, or maintain track track-moving-machine operator (construction; mine & quarry).
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator is $64,194 a year and $31 an hour in Locust Grove, Georgia, United States. The average salary range for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator is between $45,898 and $77,418. On average, a Less Than HS Degree is the highest level of education for a Track Surfacing Machine Operator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Locust Grove, Georgia.
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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Track Surfacing Machine Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
Job family population: 18,770
Estimated population of Track Surfacing Machine Operator jobs: 3,860
Rate of error: 1.2%
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About Locust Grove, Georgia
Locust Grove Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Locust Grove is a city in Henry County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,947 in 2020. Some unincorporated communities such as Luella and many rural areas surround Locust Grove, and those communities have Locust Grove postal addresses.
Locust Grove has experienced a growth in population and in businesses coming into the area. In 1900 the population of the city was 254 and is now over 5,000.
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates one or more machines mounted on flat-bed railroad trucks to spread, shape, and tamp ballast; raise, level, and align track; and prepare track foundation of crushed stone according to specifications: moves levers and brake pedal to guide machine into position.
- Adjusts controls to activate jacks, tampers, and scraper blades.
- Strings wire guidelines through leveling or aligning fixture.
- Attaches line to rails or trailer extensions (buggies) coupled to machine to set up equipment.
- Turns wheels to adjust guidelines for track alignments and grades, following specifications.
- Observes indicator arms to verify level and alignment of track.
- When concerned with jack-tamping machine, may be designated jack-tamp operator.
- May control track-lining machine and be designated track-liner operator.
- May operate machines that lay ties and lay rails to construct, repair, or maintain track track-moving-machine operator (construction; mine & quarry).
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Read More
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