Salary for Logging Equipment Operators

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Logging equipment operators are individuals who drive logging vehicles that are equipped with an additional accessory, such as a bulldozer blade, cable winches or a logging arch in order to load or unload, stack logs or clear brush. Most loggers work in heavily wooded areas, often in isolated areas and poor weather conditions. There is no work-experienced required to become an logging equipment operator, and a high school diploma is all that you will need to work in the field. Training is usually provided, which can last anywhere from a few days to several months, depending on the nature of the job. Jobs are physically demanding and only a hard-worker will complete the position.

A Logging Equipment Operator will normally get a pay level of $25,760 and $63,050 depending on tenure level. will normally receive an average salary of fourty-three thousand five hundred and seventy dollars per year.

have the best average pay in Alaska, where they can earn compensation, on average, of close to about $67,640. Professionals that work in these jobs make the highest salary in Construction, where they can get salary pay of $52,020.

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