This is the national average according to the US Department of Commerce, 2005. 20% of this is "involuntary" such as FICA, unemployment insurance, etc while 22% is "voluntary" such as medical, dental and other health benefits.
This assumes that a technical soldering skills trainer in 2005 earns $45,000 per year plus the 42% burden.
This is based on the Midwest average
This includes hand soldering station, tips, desoldering station, video system, stereo microscope, large demo screen for trainees, computer to run the demos
10 student soldering stations with each student having access to soldering station with tips, stereo microscope, fume extraction and light sources as well as solder pot and curing oven.
Assumes 1920 hours per year, 40 hours per week at an avergae of 48 working weeks per year
This represent cost of medium range area array rework system, power and air for hook up.
This is a fully-burdened cost.
An average rework technician can desolder, prepare the site and solder a 44 pin .020" pitch PLCC on a board in 12.5 minutes.
A typical reported rework yield is 80-95%.
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