Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, aged to 2026 using compounded market movement. State selections show BLS state-level figures where published. Actual pay varies with experience, industry, and organization size.
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners salary by state
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners is a professional role in the Production job family, focused on Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners work. Pay for this title reflects both its level and its scope; see our Title Level and Organization Responsibility guides for how WePayFairly defines them.
What Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpenerss do
Typical education: High School Diploma
Monitor machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur.
Inspect, feel, and measure workpieces to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.
Study blueprints or layouts of metal workpieces to determine grinding procedures, and to plan machine setups and operational sequences.
Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.
Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.
Top skills:Operations MonitoringOperation and ControlQuality Control AnalysisRepairingEquipment MaintenanceCritical Thinking
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Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners salary by industry
Sectors 31, 32, and 33 – Manufacturing
4,230 workers
$57,000
Other Services (except Public Administration)
810 workers
$52,500
Wholesale Trade
260 workers
$43,000
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
160 workers
$37,500
Sectors 44 and 45 – Retail Trade
60 workers
$44,000
Construction
50 workers
$51,000
National sector-level figures, BLS OEWS May 2025, aged to 2026.
How this role compares
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners pays 0% below the average across 105 roles in the Production job family (family average $55,000).
