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Other Skilled Trades
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£23,447
Median salary
New workers start around £10,238.71. Normal pay is £23,447 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £34,497.56.
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Jobs
Subjects achieved a 100% pass rate, including Maths,
Further Maths, Physics, English Literature and Spanish.
Daily Tasks
- Makes and repairs jewellery and decorative precious metal ware, sets, cuts and polishes gemstones and makes master patterns for articles of jewellery.
- Makes musical instruments, makes and assembles parts for musical instruments, and tunes to improve pitch, tone and volume.
- Makes patterns for moulds, fits metal castings, pours plaster, fills plaster mould with resin and smooths surface.
- Makes, maintains and adapts surgical and orthopaedic appliances.
- Makes children’s toys, dolls, models, candles, artificial flowers and other fancy goods.
- Charges fireworks, cartridges and other munitions with explosive material.
- Interweaves canes of willow, withy, bamboo, rattan or similar material to make baskets and other pieces of wickerwork.
- Makes wigs, beards and other artificial hairpieces from human hair or synthetic materials.
- Constructs and covers wire frames for lampshades.
- Uses hand or machine tools to engrave letters, patterns and other designs on jewellery and stoneware.