Logging Equipment Operators

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.

Salary by State

State Name	Employment	Annual Salary	Hourly Salary
Alabama	2,270	$40,050	$19.26
Arizona	40	$43,870	$21.09
Arkansas	1,100	$44,480	$21.38
California	1,530	$55,730	$26.79
Colorado	120	$40,970	$19.70
Florida	800	$45,250	$21.76
Georgia	1,970	$45,480	$21.87
Idaho	280	$59,690	$28.70
Illinois	40	$46,200	$22.21
Indiana	170	$41,640	$20.02
Iowa	70	$48,590	$23.36
Kentucky	380	$28,880	$13.89
Louisiana	990	$44,080	$21.19
Maine	1,080	$40,750	$19.59
Massachusetts	50	$49,760	$23.92
Michigan	690	$35,160	$16.90
Minnesota	350	$44,300	$21.30
Mississippi	1,650	$40,200	$19.33
Missouri	410	$34,390	$16.54
Montana	340	$50,660	$24.36
New Hampshire	220	$41,210	$19.81
New York	440	$41,070	$19.75
North Carolina	1,740	$39,570	$19.02
Ohio	280	$40,900	$19.66
Oklahoma	190	$34,510	$16.59
Oregon	1,820	$51,390	$24.71
Pennsylvania	410	$35,680	$17.15
South Carolina	1,100	$43,630	$20.98
South Dakota	60	$44,860	$21.57
Tennessee	310	$45,230	$21.75
Texas	1,000	$38,690	$18.60
Vermont	130	$40,170	$19.31
Virginia	940	$40,060	$19.26
Washington	1,330	$57,600	$27.69
West Virginia	530	$35,730	$17.18
Wisconsin	420	$44,270	$21.28
Wyoming	60	$47,420	$22.80

Education

The programs listed below are typically the education paths that can land you this kind of job.

A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to operate and maintain a variety of heavy equipment, such as a crawler tractors, motor graders and scrapers, shovels, rigging devices, hoists, and jacks. Includes instruction in digging, ditching, sloping, stripping, grading, and backfiling, clearing and excavating.