Miscellaneous Production Workers Career

Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

Hourly Wage: $21, Annual Wage: $44,400

Operate or tend machines to wash or clean products, such as barrels or kegs, glass items, tin plate, food, pulp, coal, plastic, or rubber, to remove impurities.

Hourly Wage: $20, Annual Wage: $41,500

Operate or tend equipment such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.

Hourly Wage: $22, Annual Wage: $44,840

Engrave or etch metal, wood, rubber, or other materials. Includes such workers as etcher-circuit processors, pantograph engravers, and silk screen etchers.

Hourly Wage: $21, Annual Wage: $42,780

Mold, shape, form, cast, or carve products such as food products, figurines, tile, pipes, and candles consisting of clay, glass, plaster, concrete, stone, or combinations of materials.

Hourly Wage: $22, Annual Wage: $44,710

Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

Hourly Wage: $24, Annual Wage: $48,910

Operate machines to build tires.

Hourly Wage: $26, Annual Wage: $53,930

Help production workers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Hourly Wage: $18, Annual Wage: $38,160

All production workers not listed separately.

Hourly Wage: $20, Annual Wage: $41,400