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Cutters and Trimmers, Hand in Alabama

Thinking about a career as a Cutters and Trimmers, Hand in Alabama? Below are the key facts. Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.

What do Cutters and Trimmers, Hand Make in Alabama?

For a cutters and trimmers, hand working in Alabama, the median annual wage is $32,140 per year (or about $15.45/hour).Earnings range from $29,500 at the 10th percentile to $67,470 at the 90th percentile.

Wage Statistic	Annual	Hourly
10th percentile	$29,500	$14.18
25th percentile	$32,140	$15.45
Median (50th)	$32,140	$15.45
75th percentile	$67,470	$32.44
90th percentile	$67,470	$32.44

Location quotient — how concentrated this career is in Alabama relative to the national average — is 4.47, suggesting that cutters and trimmers, hand are more concentrated here than the national average.

National Wage Comparison

Nationally, cutters and trimmers, hand earn a median of $57,540 per year ($27.66/hour), lower than the Alabama median.

Employment Outlook

Nationally, total employment in this occupation is 292,933 cutters and trimmers, hand nationwide. In Alabama alone, about 430 people work in this role. That’s higher than the typical state, which employs around 100 cutters and trimmers, hand.

Top States for Cutters and Trimmers, Hand Employment

These states have the highest employment of cutters and trimmers, hand work.

State	Number Employed
North Carolina	960
California	950
Indiana	520
Alabama	430
New Jersey	290
Ohio	220
Pennsylvania	220
Georgia	220
Florida	200
Tennessee	200
Texas	180
Missouri	140
Massachusetts	120
Connecticut	110
Michigan	100
Wisconsin	100
Kansas	100
Rhode Island	80
Vermont	80
Mississippi	80

Highest-Paying States for Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Where cutters and trimmers, hand earn the most: cutters and trimmers, hand.

State	Annual Median Salary
Vermont	$60,290
New York	$51,420
Minnesota	$47,330
Nebraska	$47,250
Rhode Island	$46,590
Iowa	$46,230
North Carolina	$45,910
Oregon	$44,630
Kentucky	$43,520
New Jersey	$41,600

Skills

The most important cutters and trimmers, hand skills, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Knowledge Areas

Core knowledge areas for this occupation, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Abilities

Top abilities for cutters and trimmers, hand, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Daily Tasks

Day-to-day, cutters and trimmers, hand typically:

• Mark or discard items with defects such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shapes or finishes.
• Trim excess material or cut threads off finished products, such as cutting loose ends of plastic off a manufactured toy for a smoother finish.
• Cut, shape, and trim materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.
• Position templates or measure materials to locate specified points of cuts or to obtain maximum yields, using rules, scales, or patterns.
• Read work orders to determine dimensions, cutting locations, and quantities to cut.
• Mark cutting lines around patterns or templates, or follow layout points, using squares, rules, and straightedges, and chalk, pencils, or scribes.
• Mark identification numbers, trademarks, grades, marketing data, sizes, or model numbers on products.
• Unroll, lay out, attach, or mount materials or items on cutting tables or machines.
• Separate materials or products according to size, weight, type, condition, color, or shade.
• Fold or shape materials before or after cutting them.
• Replace or sharpen dulled cutting tools such as saws.
• Lower table-mounted cutters such as knife blades, cutting wheels, or saws to cut items to specified sizes.

Work Activities

• Handling and Moving Objects
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Getting Information
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
• Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People
• Controlling Machines and Processes
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

Tools & Technology

Technologies frequently used: Hot technologies: Microsoft Excel

Related Careers

Related occupations to cutters and trimmers, hand include:

• Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Foundry Mold and Coremakers
• Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners

Also Known As

Aluminum Sheet Cutter, Basting Puller, Belt Splicer, Bright Cutter, Bucker, Buttoner, Buttonhole Maker, Buttonhole Marker, Candle Cutter, Cane Cutter, Carpet Cutter, Chalk Cutter, Clipper, Cloth Cutter, Cotton Dispatcher.

References

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics — https://www.bls.gov/oes/
• O*NET Online — https://www.onetonline.org/
• BLS Employment Projections — https://www.bls.gov/emp/
• O*NET-SOC code: 51-9031.00