DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers. Logging truck drivers are included in ?Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers? (53-3032).

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020

					Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	Mean SE*	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Central Minnesota	N/A	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Minnesota	360	44	$20.87/hr	$1.17/hr	$13.76/hr	$16.67/hr	$20.43/hr	$23.92/hr	$28.30/hr
U S	26,030	807	$20.52/hr	$0.27/hr	$12.40/hr	$15.65/hr	$20.21/hr	$24.96/hr	$29.73/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.

Other Regional Data For Logging Equipment Operators Geography (click title for details) OES Projections Employment Median Wage % Change 2022 - 2032 Northeast Minnesota 180 $21.98/hr -4.0% Central Minnesota N/A N/A N/A Southwest Minnesota N/A N/A N/A Northwest Minnesota N/A $16.58/hr -0.5% Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN N/A $28.83/hr N/A

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• Drives and maneuvers tractor and activates shear to cut and fell trees.
• Controls equipment to load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, and clear brush.
• Drives tractor to build or repair logging and skid roads.
• Saws felled trees into lengths.
• Gives or receives signals from coworkers to move logs.
• Controls hydraulic tractor equipped with tree clamp and boom to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.