This role serves as the certified weighing authority for a city or municipal jurisdiction — issuing public-weighing certificates, supervising public scales, and acting as the official representative on weight-related disputes and compliance.
This role lives at the certification authority level of public weighing — supervising city-operated scales, issuing legally-recognized weight certificates, supporting weight-related dispute resolution, and ensuring compliance with state weights-and-measures law. You're often the public face when weight disputes require official certification. Certifications issued, weighing-program compliance, and dispute-resolution outcomes anchor the visible measures.
Where it gets demanding is the certification responsibility carried by the role — city weighmasters carry licensed authority, and their decisions hold legal weight. Variance across employers is real: at major-city weights-and-measures offices the role runs within structured municipal weighing programs; at smaller municipalities the city weighmaster often combines official duties with broader public-works support.
It fits people who are regulatorily disciplined, detail-precise, and steady through public-facing certification responsibility. The trade-off is the public-accountability exposure that licensed certification carries. State weighmaster licensure and weights-and-measures credentials anchor advancement.
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View all Admin & Office roles →This role serves as the certified weighing authority for a city or municipal jurisdiction — issuing public-weighing certificates, supervising public scales, and acting as the official representative on weight-related disputes and compliance.
Median pay for a City Weighmaster is about $46K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $60K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Monitoring, Speaking, and Social Perceptiveness.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 4.8% through 2034, with roughly 49,720 people working in it today (BLS).
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