DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

45-4022 Logging Equipment Operators

Occupational Description:
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
GeographyEmploymentEmp SE*MeanMean SE*10th25thMedian75th90th
Northwest Minnesota N/AN/A$16.88/hr$1.44/hr$12.67/hr$13.95/hr$16.58/hr$19.02/hr$22.79/hr
Minnesota 36044$20.87/hr$1.17/hr$13.76/hr$16.67/hr$20.43/hr$23.92/hr$28.30/hr
U S 26,030807$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)OESProjections
EmploymentMedian Wage% Change 2020 - 2030
Northeast Minnesota 180 $21.98/hr 29.8%
Southwest Minnesota N/A N/A N/A
Northwest Minnesota N/A $16.58/hr 21.3%
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN N/A $28.83/hr N/A
Central Minnesota N/A N/A N/A
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