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Average Pay

Machinists

$56,150/yr
Across the U.S.

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Career Outlook
Machinists

BelowAverage

New job opportunities
are less likely
in the future.

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Typical Training

Machinists

Typical training
at entry is a

High school diploma or equivalent

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      Machinists Tools and Technology Profile

      Tools
      Adjustable angle plate
      • Angle plates

      Adjustable wrenches
      • Adjustable wrenches

      Angle cutter
      • Undercut tools

      Anvils
      • Anvils

      Arbors
      • Grinding wheel arbors

      Ball peen hammer
      • Ball peen hammers

      Bench dog
      • Grinding dogs

      Bench vises
      • Milling vises

      Binocular light compound microscopes
      • Binocular light compound microscopes

      Blow torch
      • Torches

      Boring machines
      • Boring bars
      • Boring tools
      • Horizontal boring bars

      Calipers
      • Calipers
      • Dial calipers
      • Hermaphrodite calipers
      • Inside spring calipers
      • Outside spring calipers
      • Vernier calipers
      • Vernier gear tooth calipers

      Casting machines
      • Centrifugal spin casters

      Center gauge
      • Edge finders

      Chamfering machine
      • Chamfer tools

      Chucks
      • Chucks

      Cold chisels
      • Cold chisels
      • Square chisels

      Column and knee milling machine
      • Knee mills

      Combination pliers
      • Combination pliers

      Combination wrenches
      • Combination wrenches

      Coordinate measuring machines CMM
      • Coordinate measuring machines CMM

      Cylinder gauge
      • Ring gauges

      Deburring tool
      • Deburring tools

      Desktop computers
      • Desktop computers

      Dial indicator or dial gauge
      • Dial indicators

      Double ended stud
      • Shims

      Drill press or radial drill
      • Radial drill presses
      • Radial drills
      • Sensitive drill presses

      Drilling machines
      • Center drills
      • Pillar drill machines

      End cut pliers
      • Side cutting pliers

      Facial shields
      • Full face shields

      Feeler gauges
      • Angled feeler gauges
      • Feeler gauges

      Flat hand file
      • Flat files

      Forklifts
      • Forklifts

      Gage block set
      • Marking blocks
      • Parallel blocks
      • V blocks

      Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
      • Oxyacetylene welding equipment

      Grinders
      • Grinders

      Grinding machines
      • Crankshaft grinders
      • Valve grinding machines

      Hacksaw
      • Hacksaws
      • Power hacksaws

      Half round file
      • Half-round files

      Hammers
      • Brass hammers
      • Composition hammers
      • Machinists' hammers

      Hand clamps
      • Hand clamps

      Hand reamer
      • Reamers

      Height gauges
      • Gauges
      • Height gauges
      • Planer gauges
      • Vernier height gauges

      Hex keys
      • Hex keys
      • Hex wrenches

      Honing machine
      • Resurfacing machines

      Horizontal machining center
      • Horizontal mills

      Horizontal turning center
      • Computerized numerical control CNC turning lathes
      • Drum lathes
      • Engine lathes
      • Flywheel lathes
      • Horizontal lathes
      • Turning lathes

      Hydraulic press frames
      • Hydraulic presses

      Induction heating machine
      • Heat-treating equipment

      Ladders
      • Ladders

      Laser printers
      • Laser printers

      Levels
      • Spirit levels

      Locking pliers
      • Channel lock pliers

      Machine end mill
      • Milling angle form cutters

      Magnetic tools
      • Magnetic retrievers

      Manual press brake
      • Arbor presses
      • Brake presses

      Metal band sawing machine
      • Bandsaws

      Metal broaching machines
      • Broachers

      Metal cutters
      • Aviation snips

      Metal inert gas welding machine
      • Metal inert gas MIG welders

      Micrometers
      • Inside micrometers
      • Micrometers
      • Outside micrometers

      Mill saw file
      • Single-cut mill saw files

      Milling machines
      • Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
      • Milling machines

      Multi-tasking or universal machining center
      • Multi-axis computerized numerical control CNC machines

      Needlenose pliers
      • Needlenose pliers

      Personal computers
      • Personal computers

      Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
      • Personal digital assistants PDA

      Pipe wrenches
      • Pipe wrenches

      Pitch measuring instruments
      • Screw pitch gauges

      Planing machines
      • Planers

      Plasma arc welding machine
      • Plasma welders

      Platform lift
      • Platforms
      • Staging equipment

      Pneumatic sanding machines
      • Sandblasters

      Power buffers
      • Buffers

      Power chippers
      • Chippers

      Power drills
      • Combination drills
      • Power drills

      Power grinders
      • Cylindrical grinders

      Power planes
      • Jointers

      Power sanders
      • Power sanders

      Power saws
      • Cold saws
      • Cutoff saws

      Protractors
      • Vernier bevel protractors

      Pry bars
      • Pry bars

      Punches or nail sets or drifts
      • Prick punches
      • Punches

      Putty knives
      • Putty knives

      Radius gauge
      • Radius gauges

      Ratchets
      • Ratchet sets

      Rubber mallet
      • Rubber mallets

      Rulers
      • Steel rules

      Safety glasses
      • Welding lenses

      Saws
      • Hand saws

      Screwdrivers
      • Phillips head screwdrivers
      • Screwdrivers
      • Spindle blade screwdrivers

      Scribers
      • Scribers

      Shaper cutter
      • Shapers

      Sharpening stones or tools or kits
      • Cylinder honers
      • Sharpening equipment

      Shears
      • Beverly shears
      • Metal shears
      • Shears

      Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine
      • Shielded arc welding tools

      Sine bar
      • Sine bars

      Sledge hammer
      • Sledgehammers

      Slings
      • Machine shop rigging equipment

      Socket sets
      • Socket wrench sets

      Spot welding machine
      • Handheld welders
      • Portable welding equipment

      Squares
      • Machinists' squares

      Surface gauge
      • Surface gauges

      Surface grinding machine
      • Surface grinding machines

      Swaging tools
      • Swaging tools

      Taps
      • Metal cutting taps

      Telescoping gauge
      • Telescoping gauges

      Thermal spray machine
      • Metal spray equipment

      Thread counters or gauges
      • Thread gauges

      Threading die hand tool
      • Pipe threaders

      Threading machine
      • Threading machines

      Tongs
      • Tongs

      Tracer or duplicating or contouring lathe
      • Breaker lathes
      • Lathes

      Traveling column milling machine
      • 3-axis computerized numerical control CNC machines

      Tube bending machine
      • Tube benders

      Tungsten inert gas welding machine
      • Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment

      Turret lathe
      • Turret lathes
      • Vertical turret lathes VTL

      Utility knives
      • Utility knives

      Vertical machining center
      • Vertical milling machines

      Wave soldering machine
      • Soldering equipment

      Wedges
      • Steel wedges
      • Wedges

      Welder torch
      • Brazing equipment

      Welding masks
      • Welding shields

      Workshop cranes
      • Workshop cranes

      Technology
      Analytical or scientific software
      • Armchair Machinist software
      • CNC Consulting Machinists' Calculator
      • Kentech Kipware Trig Kalculator

      Computer aided design CAD software
      • 3D Printing software
      • Autodesk AutoCAD
      • Computer aided design CAD software
      • Dassault Systemes CATIA
      • Kentech Kipware Studio
      • OnShape
      • PTC Creo Parametric
      • Siemens NX
      • SolidCAM CAM software

      Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
      • Autodesk Fusion 360
      • Autodesk HSMWorks
      • CNC Mastercam
      • Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
      • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
      • GRZ Software MeshCAM
      • IMSI TurboCAD
      • JETCAM
      • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
      • OneCNC CAD/CAM
      • Vero Software SURFCAM

      Electronic mail software
      • Microsoft Outlook

      Enterprise resource planning ERP software
      • ERP software
      • JobBOSS
      • SAP software

      Industrial control software
      • EditCNC
      • Mazak Mazatrol SMART CNC

      Object or component oriented development software
      • G-code

      Office suite software
      • Microsoft Office software

      Presentation software
      • Microsoft PowerPoint

      Procedure management software
      • Hexagon Metrology PC-DMIS

      Spreadsheet software
      • Microsoft Excel

      Word processing software
      • Microsoft Word

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