Skilled Trades

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

Median salary (BLS)

$42,770

10th–90th percentile (BLS)

$31k – $58k

Job outlook

No separate BLS projection for this specific role

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Education

Typical entry: No degree required

Junior Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
Entry / Junior
$30,890
~2 yrs to advance
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
Established
$42,770
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
Senior
$50,470

•Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
•Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
•Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
•Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
•Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.

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