Steve, A good place to start might be the local Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau. They have cost of living factors for different regions and local union information for different trades. R. G. Blomberg Honeywell Staff Production Engineer -----Original Message----- From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 10:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Wave Solder Operator Wages... Hi Ya'll, Well, with my new job as was supposed to be a SMT Process Engineer, I got tasked with taking over our wave solder operations (and being the supervisor to boot! Hey, whatcha' gonna do? With relocating and everything?) Nuff' said... Anyhoo, I've been wave soldering everything myself the past couple of weeks and need to hire a competent operator so I can go on to bigger and better things. Problem is, I'm not really familiar with the wage scales for wave solder operators in Oklahoma. Myself, I think a good operator that can think on his feet is worth their weight in gold, just as I think a good manual soldering operator is. However, my opinion I've learned, is not shared by those that control the "purse strings" (if you will...nuff' said about that too, if you catch my drift...) What I'm asking, is there a web page someplace that will give me some ammunition to justify a certain hourly pay-scale for someone that I'm looking for? Something that I can go to management with and let them know that they can expect to hire someone for a certain figure and expect a competent person. Just to let you know, they think they I can hire someone for between $6.50-7.50 an hour out here...I don't think so myself...that's if I can find someone that knows anything about wave soldering...hehehe I'm going to interview them to be sure, and I think I'll be able to distinguish whether or not the person has the where-with-all to be a good operator...I'll share everything I know about the process with this person. I've always been an engineer, and not usually involved in the hiring of operators... especially here in Oklahoma. I know pretty much what production positions get in "Silicon Valley" but not here in Oklahoma. Boy, this sucks...I just need a web page, something...anything -Steve Gregory- ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################