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Shoe & Leather Worker

Shoe & Leather Worker

  • Craft unique leather goods with precision and creativity for diverse uses.
  • Enhance everyday items with skilled leatherwork, impacting fashion and utility.
  • Blend tradition and innovation in leather crafting for personalized, lasting products.
💰 Earn $36K-$43K
📚 High School Diploma or GED

Overview

Construct, decorate, or repair leather and leather-like products, such as luggage, shoes, and saddles. May use hand tools.

Scoop

Minimum Education

High School Diploma or GED

Career Prospects

Risky (Decreasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

6 months to 1 year

Job Openings

800 Annually

Median Earnings

$37,260 in California
$36,020 Nationally

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Day-to-Day

  • Dye, soak, polish, paint, stamp, stitch, stain, buff, or engrave leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes.
  • Cut out parts, following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses.
  • Construct, decorate, or repair leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and thread, leather lacing, glue, clamps, hand tools, or rivets.
  • Repair and recondition leather products such as trunks, luggage, shoes, saddles, belts, purses, and baseball gloves.
  • Align and stitch or glue materials such as fabric, fleece, leather, or wood, to join parts.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Being creative or artistic
  • Using data or completing tasks
  • Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring
  • Operation and Control
  • Operations Monitoring
  • Quality Control Analysis
  • Speaking

You value 🙏

  • Accomplishing things
  • Having support
  • Having freedom

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