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Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

Manufacturing $22.63 High school diploma or equivalent 12%  projected growth 790  annual job openings

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Manufacturing $16.19 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.