Skip to main content

Occupational Employment Statistics


DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

51-9071 Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers



Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems. Includes diamond polishers and gem cutters, and persons who perform precision casting and modeling of molds, casting metal in molds, or setting precious and semi-precious stones for jewelry and related products.

Geography Click link for Career Profile EmploymentEmp SE*Percentiles
Mean10th25thMedian75th90th
Northwest Minnesota 205$21.97/hr$11.53/hr$18.01/hr$22.91/hr$23.29/hr$30.29/hr


IndustryOES Employment (Statewide)OES Median Wage (Statewide)
Manufacturing70$28.62/hr
Trade, Transportation and Utilities220$24.79/hr
Other ServicesN/AN/A
 
Geography Click link for details EmploymentMedian WageProjections
% Change 2022-2032
Northeast Minnesota N/AN/AN/A
Grand Forks ND-MN MSA N/AN/AN/A
La Crosse WI-MN MSA N/AN/AN/A
Mankato-North Mankato MN MSA N/AN/AN/A
Rochester MN MSA N/AN/AN/A
Northeast Balance of State N/AN/AN/A
Southwest Balance of State N/AN/AN/A
Southwest Minnesota 10$24.21/hr0.0%
Northwest Minnesota 20$22.91/hr-1.6%
Duluth MN-WI MSA 20$22.39/hrN/A
Fargo ND-MN MSA 20$26.11/hrN/A
St Cloud MN MSA 20$24.24/hrN/A
Northwest Balance of State 20$22.91/hrN/A
Southeast Balance of State 30$24.36/hrN/A
Central Minnesota 40$24.79/hr-5.1%
Southeast Minnesota 40$24.04/hr-1.3%
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN 180$25.18/hr-2.9%
Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington MN-WI MSA 190$25.18/hrN/A
Minnesota 310$24.79/hr-2.3%


Occupations Click link for details EmploymentMedian WageProjections
% Change 2022-2032
Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers 380$17.21/hr-10.4%
Sewers, Hand N/AN/AN/A
Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians 1,340$19.46/hr6.8%


  • Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
  • Hold stones, gems, dies, or styluses against rotating plates, wheels, saws, or slitters to cut, shape, slit, grind, or polish them.
  • Estimate wholesale and retail value of gems, following pricing guides, market fluctuations, and other relevant economic factors.
  • Examine gems during processing to ensure accuracy of angles and positions of cuts or bores, using magnifying glasses, loupes, or shadowgraphs.
  • Secure gems or diamonds in holders, chucks, dops, lapidary sticks, or blocks for cutting, polishing, grinding, drilling, or shaping.
  • Make repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings.
  • Compute costs of labor and materials in order to determine production costs of products and articles.
  • Assign polish, symmetry, and clarity grades to stones, according to established grading systems.
  • Select shaping wheels for tasks, and mix and apply abrasives, bort, or polishing compounds.
  • Plate articles such as jewelry pieces and watch dials, using silver, gold, nickel, or other metals.