Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders

Manufacturing
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

  • Average hourly rate is $19 per hour with an average salary of $39,800 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $16 and $22 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $33,800 and $45,100 per 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.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

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