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Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
What a packaging and filling machine operators and tender does
Become a packaging and filling machine operators and tender
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good packaging and filling machine operators and tender
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $24 per hour with a typical salary of $52,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $20 and $27 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $10,800 and $49,100 per year.
- 39% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $25 per hour with a typical salary of $26,800 per year.
- 42.3% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Packaging And Filling Machine Operators And Tender job outlook
- There are 7,605 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 1,031 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 19% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.