How CNC programmer earn per hour?

[Code_Breaker]

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adding that in case some people were mking 100,000 a year without vacations or insurance.

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I get the money . . .

I get the vacation . . .

I rejected the insurance, because my wife's coverage is 22 1/3 times better.

[Thad]

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I rejected the insurance

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Code,

 

Did your company compensate you at all for this?

 

Thad

[Chao]

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Wonder what a CNC programmer in China earns?

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1 bowl of rice??????

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Maybe half bowl of rice.

 

Let's say one meal would cost $10 US in North America, the half is $5, times 8.25 should be 41.25 RMB (Chinese money yuan), times 2080 hrs should be 85800 RMB, say, $10400 US. this is what they making there in China.

 

Listen, this is not a small number for people living in China.

 

More Qs?

[steve f]

Millingman,

 

I have my journeyman tool & die papers but it seems a ticket counts for more in Canada since it's regulated by the government...

 

It sure helped me get my job but then again I'm self-employed.

 

...when I sat down for my self-employment interview I said I wouldn't take the job unless I could work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, unpaid vacation, benies paid out of my own pocket and complete freedom to direct my own career as I see fit...

 

Lucky for me every demand was met

 

cheers

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Where you working Steve?

[Jack Neelands™]

I wish I could make a long story short

 

 

but I cant...so for your perusal

 

 

I had the opportunity to visit a Company south of Beijing when i was working for EGR in Australia...turned out it was a Chinese Gulag that was competing for the bid of a sandcast part we needed machined for a vehicle that we were outfitting

The conditions were outright deplorable...I was told not to talk to any of the employees while being escorted around by a Major Pei of the People's Republic of China

He was distracted by a guard briefly and told me to stay were I was while he attended to his responsibilites and I of course being the wanderer that I am, had full reign of the shop with almost 100 different CNC machines and their operators working around me on castings of various sizes

 

It took me about 10 min to see that these ppl were living with their machines ..the cots ...small tables around the back of the machines with wooden rice bowls and cups in the center and everybody wearing the what used to be what i thought was a uniform but turned out to be prison rags

Standing there on my own and realizing that every eye in the place was on me. It hit me like a slap in the face.

These people were working for not just a bowl of rice, but the right to live another day!!!!!

Major Pei came back from the front of the Shop and looked extremely stressed at the fact that I had moved from where he last left me and announced that the tour was over and that I was to follow him.

I swear... when I looked back over my shoulder I saw the same look in alot of these guys eyes as that of a condemned dog that knows its going to die in the gas chamber because he is unwanted and abandoned

I dont drink much and Im not one to wander off to the liquour store unless company is coming over for wine with dinner but as soon as I got off the plane in Brisbane. I got in my car and hit the first Bottle O I could find in Salisbury on the way home from the airport.

I barbecued steaks on the "Barbie" while drinking JD on the rocks as my daughter squeeled with delight in the back yard chasing a Blue tongue lizard and thanked God for my freedom.

I want more just like everybody else but grateful that I can "Get what I can" cause there are ppl out there that can even get that.

When I got offered this job in London I jumped on it, as it was close to my parents whom are getting on in age....I know I could make 35+/hr in Toronto as that is what I was making before I left for Australia 7 yrs ago, but to me its not worth it.

When my parents do pass on and my daughter gets older Im sure I will going for the gusto and throwing myself back into the "Pit of Overtime and Overtaxed Wages" but till now.

"I take what I can get."

[desmotom]

I need to put more time in to get some respect from my programming and then the money will come. Can't complain right now went to school was an operator for 1.5 years and now I am a supervisor and program for 10 machines mostly lathes but soon the mills too.

[CAM-mando]

Fascinating post Jack.

 

When you say Gulag, you mean the Chineese shop was staffed by actual prisoners?

 

Sounds like you have a very good perspective on the family/work challange too.

[Jack Neelands™]

Yes Cam they are political prisoners for whatever reason the government has decided they need to be there.

There are approximately 15 million of them in various Gulags around China and most of them are well educated ppl that have refused the communist's ideas and either spoke out or found guilty of treason for some manner or another....

 

and thanks Cam

[terry5357]

I am making 62.5k yr in Dallas, Tx and that is a bit more than what most make here. I bring 30yrs of maching background to the table, 20 of that in CNC environment, 15 of that MC programming, 8 of that as shop supervisor/programmer/20 other hats..........lol. I would like to make more but I work a forty hour week so I'm not bitching.

I moved from Shreveport, La. 8 years ago where I was making the max of a whopping $17 hour. When I moved to Dallas my rate of pay went from 34k a yr to 45k without having to work overtime.

I told exwife (who is a legal secretary) if you don't quit f*cking me out of my visitation and using the kids to cause me heartache I would move to dallas. that was 8 years ago, my youngest son (15 yrs old) now lives with me. Its really funny, when I took the power of her being able to f*ck with me by being in another state, she became almost instantly nice, she no longer had every other weekend off, she would gladly meet me in Tyler, Tx. to exchange the kids. Funny how me moving to Dallas worked out for me all the way around.......I also told her "see Annie, what goes around , comes around".......ain't life grand

[Kannon]

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I moved from Shreveport, La. 8 years ago where I was making the max of a whopping $17 hour.

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still more then I make an hour, and Im not kidding

 

[Code_Breaker]

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Did your company compensate you at all for this?

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No . . . check with my daughter who is HR Manager of the largest Mall in So. California. She said that the way insurance industry is, it is NOT to the company's benefit to compense you for NOT taking their insurance.

[Guest]

www.cuttingtoolengineering.com/pdf/0608-SalarySurvey.pdf

 

 

this tells wages for all regions and type of work that you do.

[Glenn Bouman]

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The conditions were outright deplorable...I was told not to talk to any of the employees while being escorted around by a Major Pei of the People's Republic of China...

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That must have been quite an experience Jack, hopefully Mao Tse-Tung does not monitor this forum or he might track you down.

[Thad]

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She said that the way insurance industry is, it is NOT to the company's benefit to compense you for NOT taking their insurance.

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Then I'd sign up for it and not use it.

 

Thad

[Hardmill]

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Then I'd sign up for it and not use it.

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PEACE

[Thad]

Our old company would compensate you with $30/month if you opted out. I saved them ~$750/month and they award me with $30. Guess what happened.

 

Thad

[Hardmill]

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Guess what happened.

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You stayed there forever and ever, and lived happily ever after ??

 

 

PEACE

[Adam]

Jeeze my probation salary is 52K. Full benefits, pention, and 3 weeks paid. I just started this job and I have about 2 months of cnc programming exp. plus a 2 year mechanical eng. diploma. No real maching exp. I got lucky and snagged it up I guess.

[Guest]

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2 months of cnc programming exp. plus a 2 year mechanical eng. diploma. No real maching exp.

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Hope they pass out hard hats where you work

 

[Adam]

yeah haha, and they put me on the 5-axis cnc, I had a great interview I am thinking. That or they didnt have anybody else apply!

 

I am like a bumblebee, not really supposed to fly but I do. Ah but we all started somewhere right guys.

[Steve Zirtzman]

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yeah haha, and they put me on the 5-axis cnc, I had a great interview I am thinking. That or they didnt have anybody else apply!

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I think we will be seeing alot of you on this Forum.

[steve f]

Millingman,

 

here's my company website:

 

www.muvdesign.com

 

...we're based in Calgary right now and expanding to Manitoba over the next few months.

[Guest]

Nevermind how much can they earn.

 

Do any companies actually do their own hiring any more?

 

It seems as though job, after job, after job are only being offered through "recruiters" as temp or temp to perm.

 

Don't companies hire their own full-time employees any more?

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

2 months of cnc programming exp. plus a 2 year mechanical eng. diploma. No real maching exp.

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yOU BETTER THINK OF BEING ABLE TO PROGRAM AND

MAKE ANY JOB YOUR SHOP HAS RATHER ABOUT MONEY NOW.

FROM THOSE WHO EARN MUCH EXPECT MUCH .

 

Teh 8 years of mechanical engineering and 15 years

of CNC (setup ,machining ,programming )