Skilled Trades
Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems.
Median salary
$49,140
Typical range
$34k – $82k
Job outlook
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Education
Typical entry: No degree (trade/license)
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Junior Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
Entry / Junior
$33,890
~2 yrs to advance
Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
Established
$49,140
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
Senior
$65,375
Key skills
A typical day
- •Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
- •Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
- •Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.
- •Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
- •Examine assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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