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Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Set up, operate, or tend spraying or rolling machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials. Includes painters of transportation vehicles such as painters in auto body repair facilities.
What a coating, painting, and spraying machine setter, operator, and tender does
Become a coating, painting, and spraying machine setter, operator, and tender
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good coating, painting, and spraying machine setter, operator, and tender
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $27 per hour with an average salary of $56,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $20 and $30 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $40,700 and $62,900 per year.
Coating, Painting, And Spraying Machine Setter, Operator, And Tender job outlook
- There are 3,891 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 488 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.