CNC Swiss Machinist Pay — What Shops Are Actually Posting

If you’re hiring or job-hunting Swiss-type work, here’s what shops are actually posting right now — not a national average, not a guess. Same live-board method as the rest of this pay series: every figure below comes from real JobPosting data on hirecnc.com, pulled September 11, 2026.

The Numbers

Median pay for CNC Swiss machinist postings on our board right now: $32.00/hr, across 25 live listings — the middle half run $29.71 to $37.50/hr.

Worth saying plainly: 25 is still a smaller sample than the other roles in this series (mill, setup, and programmer all clear 25+ postings), so treat this as a real but early read, not the final word — we’ll keep it current as more Swiss postings come through.

That $32.00/hr median sits below general CNC machinist pay ($33.93/hr), and now sits roughly in line with mill and lathe/turning work ($32.50/hr and $32.00/hr) rather than below them. Swiss roles are already documented as harder to fill and slower to close than general machining roles on this board — see hireCNC’s Swiss recruiting page — so a Swiss posting now paying about the same as a mill or lathe posting, despite being tougher to staff, is still worth noting. That’s a real gap, not spin.

Where Swiss Pay Tops Out

Three real postings from the current board, highest first:

• Quantum Precision (West Chicago, IL) — CNC Swiss Programmer / Setup Machinist, Citizen/Tsugami — $36.00–$50.00/hr
• Camtool, Inc (IN) — CNC Swiss Programmer/Machinist, PartMaker — $35.00–$45.00/hr
• Cox Manufacturing (TX) — CNC Swiss & Swiss Lead Machinist, Day Shift — $26.00–$50.00/hr

PartMaker programming knowledge and Tsugami/Star/Citizen platform experience are common threads across the highest-paying Swiss postings on this board right now.

How This Compares to the Government Number

No BLS breakout exists for Swiss-type machining specifically — the closest is the blended “machinists” median, $28.25/hr (May 2025, Occupational Outlook Handbook). That’s close to what our board shows for Swiss work, for what it’s worth — unlike some of the other specialties in this series, Swiss pay on our board isn’t running noticeably ahead of the national blended figure right now.

See what’s currently open on hireCNC’s CNC Swiss machinist job board, or head back to the full CNC machinist pay hub for pay by role and by state.

Methodology: every figure on this page comes from hireCNC’s own job board — live JobPosting structured data pulled directly from hirecnc.com, not third-party estimates. Full method and the rest of the pay-by-role and pay-by-state breakdowns are on the CNC machinist pay hub.

Reviewed by: Jon House, Founder, hireCNC
Article: CNC Swiss Machinist Pay — What Shops Are Actually Posting
Publisher: hireCNC
Published: September 10, 2026
Data last refreshed: September 11, 2026
Methodology: Wage figures are the median midpoint of pay ranges posted in live hireCNC job listings, harvested directly from the structured job-posting data on hirecnc.com. This is not a survey or a government estimate — it reflects what employers are actively offering on hireCNC’s board as of the refresh date.
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