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title: "Team Assembler"
description: "Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted…"
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Team Assembler

**Category:** Production · **SOC code:** 51-2092 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 51-2092.00

Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them, rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team.

Also advertised as: Assembler; Assembly Associate; Assembly Line Machine Operator; Assembly Line Worker; Assembly Operator; Assembly Technician; Certified Composites Technician (CCT); Manufacturing Associate.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $44,650 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $21.47/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $33,280 to $64,880, with the middle half between $37,380 and $51,200
- **Total US employment:** 1,405,030
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -0.1% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 156,300 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 50/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 1,405,030 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $33,280 |
| 25th | $37,380 |
| 50th (median) | $44,650 |
| 75th | $51,200 |
| 90th | $64,880 |
| Mean (average) | $46,660 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $50,330 | $45,796 | 80 |
| HI | $49,630 | $45,138 | 420 |
| AK | $49,390 | $48,252 | 220 |
| NV | $49,050 | $49,060 | 11,290 |
| IA | $48,920 | $55,742 | 19,540 |
| WA | $48,260 | $45,097 | 16,990 |
| KY | $47,950 | $53,184 | 47,320 |
| CA | $47,720 | $43,100 | 98,390 |
| ND | $47,250 | $53,114 | 4,410 |
| NH | $46,940 | $45,063 | 6,130 |
| MN | $46,920 | $47,576 | 44,810 |
| OR | $46,910 | $45,385 | 11,120 |
| MA | $46,720 | $44,177 | 11,600 |
| MO | $46,480 | $51,180 | 32,850 |
| CO | $46,150 | $44,783 | 9,180 |

37 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 52 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/team-assembler/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/team-assembler.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 1,467,100 in the 2024–2034 base year to 1,465,900 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 1,300 jobs, or -0.1%. Declining: -0.1% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 156,300 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma | 81.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 6.7% |
| Some College Courses | 6.6% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 3.8% |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 0.9% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 0.5% |

## What the work involves

- Perform quality checks on products and parts.
- Shovel, sweep, or otherwise clean work areas.
- Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.
- Rotate through all the tasks required in a particular production process.
- Supervise assemblers and train employees on job procedures.
- Determine work assignments and procedures.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operation and Control — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Production and Processing — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mechanical — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Manual Dexterity — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Finger Dexterity — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Conventional (C), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 5.37 |
| C — Conventional | 4.58 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.93 |
| S — Social | 2.42 |
| A — Artistic | 1.60 |
| I — Investigative | 1.43 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 84.0 |
| ISTJ | 80.7 |
| ISFJ | 75.5 |
| ESFJ | 72.7 |
| ESTP | 64.4 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ, ISTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-equipment-assembler) — median $45,930
- [Engine and Other Machine Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/engine-and-other-machine-assembler) — median $53,710
- [Electromechanical Equipment Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electromechanical-equipment-assembler) — median $45,930
- [Aircraft Structure, Surface, Rigging, and Systems Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aircraft-structure-surface-rigging-and-systems-assembler) — median $65,380
- [Industrial Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $66,120
- [Mechanical Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $74,510
- [Industrial Machinery Mechanic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-machinery-mechanic) — median $64,520
- [Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $78,190
- [Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setter, Operator, and Tender](https://nuecareer.com/careers/welding-soldering-and-brazing-machine-setter-operator-and-tender) — median $47,920
- [Millwright](https://nuecareer.com/careers/millwright) — median $65,700

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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