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Firebrick & Refractory Tile Repairer
$64,529 (USD)/yr
$31.02 (USD)/hr
$2,220 (USD)/yr
The average firebrick & refractory tile repairer gross salary in Louisville, Kentucky is $64,529 or an equivalent hourly rate of $31. This is 5% lower (-$3,126) than the average firebrick & refractory tile repairer salary in the United States. In addition, they earn an average bonus of $2,220. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky. An entry level firebrick & refractory tile repairer (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $46,740. On the other end, a senior level firebrick & refractory tile repairer (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $79,301.
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Salary Potential
$72,483 (USD)
12 %
Based on our compensation data, the estimated salary potential for Firebrick & Refractory Tile Repairer will increase 12 % over 5 years.
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The cost of living in Louisville, Kentucky is 2% less than the average cost of living in the United States. Cost of living is calculated based on accumulating the cost of food, transportation, health services, rent, utilities, taxes, and miscellaneous.
View Cost of Living PageLouisville (varying pronunciations: LOO-ee-vil, US: LOO-ə-vəl, locally LUUV-əl) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis...
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Job Description
Lays firebrick and refractory tile to build, rebuild, reline, or patch high-temperature or heating equipment, such as boilers, ovens, furnaces, converters, cupolas, ladles, and soaking pits, according to job orders and blueprints: lays out work, using chalklines, plumb bobs, tapes, squares, and levels. Calculates angles and courses for building walls, arches, columns, corners, and bottoms. Removes burned or damaged brick... and cleans surface of setting, using sledgehammer, pry bar, pneumatic chipping gun, scraper, and wire brush. Cuts brick to size, using brick hammer or powered abrasive saw. Spreads fire-clay mortar over brick with trowel and lays brick in place. Spreads or sprays refractories over exposed bricks to protect bricks against deterioration by heat, using trowel or spray gun. Positions or bends special frame or hanger over casings to lay arches. Cuts, notches, or drills openings to provide outlets, pyrometer mountings, brackets, and heating elements, using handtools. Patches or replaces firebrick linings of ladles and furnace tap holes. Constructs refractory forms for controlling quantity and flow of molten materials from furnace to rolling machines. May replace bolts, brackets, and heating elements, repair coke oven doors, weld cracks or holes in shell, or perform other repairs. May pack insulation into shells and frames to insulate heating equipment, such as furnaces, boilers, and ovens. May be designated according to structure worked on as bessemer-bottom maker; coke-oven mason; door repairer; furnace mason (constru.
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