Brazing And Welding Machine Operators Salaries, Locations, and Schools

Employment Overview

If you add up all the brazing and welding machine operators in the country you get a total of about 53,000. There has been a high unemployment rate for workers. An unfortunate 7% of employees were without jobs in 2006.

Flexibility

Brazing and welding machine operators who work for themselves total about 7%. Government statistics report that 2% of workers are employed part-time.

Education

A postsecondary vocational award is often necessary for working in the field. About 2% of brazing and welding machine operators have earned a degree. Some college, below a 4-year degree, is sufficient for 25% of workers. Employees with only a high school education represent about 73% of all.

Local Outlook

Brazing and welding machine operators appear most common in Monroe (Michigan), La Crosse (Wisconsin), and Gadsden (Alabama), and least common in Seattle (Washington), Fort Lauderdale (Florida), and Washington (District of Columbia). Rockford (Illinois), Seattle (Washington), and Detroit (Michigan) offer the highest pay. Farmington (New Mexico), Johnson City (Tennessee), and Gadsden (Alabama) offer the lowest salaries.

Detailed local employment conditions for Brazing And Welding Machine Operators in metro areas across the US are shown in the table below.

Local Jobs Info for Brazing And Welding Machine Operators

Employment info for Brazing And Welding Machine Operators, by metropolitan area (for 2006). A Market Strength rating of 1.0 means the city (and surroundings) has an average number of workers in the occupation for to its population. A higher number indicates relatively more workers for the occupation in that location.

State	City and Surroundings	Market Strength	Workers	Median Wage
Alabama	Birmingham	1.81	220	$29,000
Alabama	Gadsden	13.95	90	$20,000
Alabama	Mobile	4.2	170	$39,000
Arizona	Phoenix	0.51	230	$33,000
Arizona	Tucson	0.68	60	$31,000
Arkansas	Fayetteville	2.22	100	$24,000
Arkansas	Little Rock	1.16	90	$34,000
California	Fresno	0.52	40	$29,000
California	Los Angeles	0.71	710	$30,000
California	Oakland	0.78	190	$29,000
California	Riverside	1.57	490	$28,000
California	Sacramento	0.51	110	$33,000
California	San Diego	0.25	80	$31,000
California	San Jose	0.37	80	$28,000
California	Santa Ana	0.95	350	$30,000
Colorado	Denver	0.54	160	$43,000
Connecticut	Hartford	1.41	190	$38,000
Delaware	Wilmington	1.18	90	$43,000
District of Columbia	Washington	0.07	40	$33,000
Florida	Fort Lauderdale	0.17	30	$28,000
Florida	Lakeland	1.76	80	$33,000
Florida	Sarasota	0.61	40	$25,000
Florida	Tampa	0.8	240	$28,000
Georgia	Athens	3.13	50	$36,000
Georgia	Atlanta	1.05	600	$28,000
Georgia	Augusta	2.36	110	$26,000
Georgia	Columbus	1.23	30	$28,000
Georgia	Gainesville	5.07	70	$33,000
Idaho	Boise	0.81	50	$32,000
Illinois	Chicago	0.88	810	$33,000
Illinois	Rockford	8.61	290	$55,000
Indiana	Anderson	9.1	70	$27,000
Indiana	Elkhart	6.89	200	$30,000
Indiana	Evansville	1.01	40	$34,000
Indiana	Gary	2.17	140	$29,000
Indiana	Indianapolis	3.38	710	$33,000
Indiana	Michigan City	5.71	50	$29,000
Indiana	South Bend	2.9	90	$30,000
Iowa	Cedar Rapids	1.33	40	$32,000
Iowa	Davenport	12.01	490
Iowa	Waterloo	3.98	70	$33,000
Kansas	Wichita	4.01	280	$39,000
Kentucky	Lexington	3.21	180	$40,000
Kentucky	Louisville	1.88	270	$31,000
Louisiana	New Orleans	0.34	40	$35,000
Louisiana	Shreveport	3.42	130	$35,000
Maryland	Baltimore	1.01	310	$34,000
Massachusetts	Boston	0.81	330	$40,000
Massachusetts	Springfield	1.71	120	$34,000
Massachusetts	Worcester	1.04	60	$26,000
Michigan	Ann Arbor	2.84	110	$45,000
Michigan	Detroit	3.99	700	$54,000
Michigan	Grand Rapids	4.59	410	$35,000
Michigan	Kalamazoo	1.27	40	$35,000
Michigan	Lansing	1.75	80	$36,000
Michigan	Monroe	46.57	370	$55,000
Michigan	Muskegon	9.98	130	$27,000
Michigan	Saginaw	3.42	60	$32,000
Michigan	Warren	3.59	1,000	$37,000
Minnesota	Minneapolis	0.6	260	$40,000
Missouri	Jefferson City	2.7	40	$37,000
Missouri	Joplin	7.76	130	$25,000
Missouri	Kansas City	0.91	220	$28,000
Missouri	Springfield	3.86	170	$27,000
Missouri	St Louis	1.21	390	$30,000
Nebraska	Omaha	0.56	60	$29,000
Nevada	Las Vegas	0.22	50	$27,000
New Jersey	Edison	0.62	150	$34,000
New Jersey	Newark	0.5	120	$32,000
New Mexico	Farmington	10.34	110	$23,000
New York	Albany	1.96	200	$49,000
New York	Nassau	0.51	150	$30,000
New York	New York	0.31	370	$33,000
New York	Rochester	1.7	200	$29,000
New York	Syracuse	0.85	60	$33,000
North Carolina	Asheville	1.74	70
North Carolina	Charlotte	1.84	380	$31,000
North Carolina	Greensboro	0.92	80	$30,000
North Carolina	Hickory	5.03	190	$31,000
North Carolina	Winston Salem	0.61	30	$31,000
North Dakota	Fargo	1.58	40	$37,000
Ohio	Akron	4.46	350	$31,000
Ohio	Canton	6.99	270	$29,000
Ohio	Cincinnati	2.9	710	$33,000
Ohio	Cleveland	6.24	1,580	$33,000
Ohio	Columbus	2.38	520	$32,000
Ohio	Dayton	3.47	320	$33,000
Ohio	Sandusky	4.29	30
Ohio	Springfield	13.02	130	$31,000
Ohio	Toledo	3.46	260	$38,000
Ohio	Youngstown	3.1	170	$30,000
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	1.43	190	$29,000
Oklahoma	Tulsa	3.32	330	$32,000
Oregon	Eugene	0.89	30	$30,000
Oregon	Portland	1.18	290	$31,000
Pennsylvania	Lancaster	2.62	140	$34,000
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	0.56	250	$30,000
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	0.81	220	$33,000
Pennsylvania	York	2.47	100	$43,000
South Carolina	Anderson	8.89	110	$27,000
South Carolina	Charleston	1.04	70	$28,000
South Carolina	Columbia	0.74	60	$34,000
South Carolina	Greenville	4.65	330	$34,000
South Carolina	Spartanburg	4.39	120	$29,000
South Dakota	Sioux Falls	1.99	60	$30,000
Tennessee	Chattanooga	3.72	190	$35,000
Tennessee	Johnson City	5.52	90	$20,000
Tennessee	Kingsport	5.21	130	$29,000
Tennessee	Knoxville	1.56	120	$33,000
Tennessee	Nashville	2.6	470	$28,000
Texas	Austin	0.23	40	$30,000
Texas	Brownsville	8.54	230	$33,000
Texas	Dallas	0.73	360	$26,000
Texas	Fort Worth	1.68	330	$28,000
Texas	San Antonio	0.78	150	$26,000
Utah	Ogden	3.23	140	$23,000
Utah	Salt Lake City	1.12	160	$30,000
Virginia	Lynchburg	1.8	40	$26,000
Virginia	Virginia Beach	3.36	600	$41,000
Washington	Seattle	0.18	60	$51,000
Wisconsin	Appleton	1.97	50	$37,000
Wisconsin	Janesville	7.08	100	$45,000
Wisconsin	La Crosse	20.55	310
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	2.36	480	$32,000