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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Driller Operator Salary
in Topeka, Kansas
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$43,947 (USD)
Average Salary
$21/hr
Average Hourly
$694
Average Bonus
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Last updated: October 31, 2024
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Driller Operator is $43,947 a year and $21 an hour in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The average salary range for a Driller Operator is between $32,301 and $52,253. On average, a Less Than HS Degree is the highest level of education for a Driller Operator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Topeka, Kansas.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
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Estimated salary in 2029:
$49,364
5 Year Change:
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About Topeka, Kansas
Topeka Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Topeka ( tə-PEE-kə) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census.
The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka...
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates self-propelled or truck-mounted drilling machine to bore blasting holes in overburden at strip mine, open pit, quarry, or construction site: positions and stabilizes machine, using jacks, and lowers drill shaft into position.
- Moves levers to start and advance drill into overburden, ore, or rock formation.
- Stops drill to install additional drill stems.
- Observes operation to detect binding or stoppage of drill.
- Removes drill when specified depth has been reached.
- Replaces broken or worn parts, using handtools, and lubricates equipment.
- May charge and set off explosives in blasting holes.
- May be assisted by driller helper (construction; mine & quarry).
- May be designated according to type of drill operated as tractor-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry); rotary-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry); wagon-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry).
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Driller Operator is $43,947 a year and $21 an hour in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The average salary range for a Driller Operator is between $32,301 and $52,253. On average, a Less Than HS Degree is the highest level of education for a Driller Operator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Topeka, Kansas.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
Find actuarial salary survey data and benchmark salary and pay.
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Driller Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Job family population: 5,740
Estimated population of Driller Operator jobs: 560
Rate of error: 6.1%
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About Topeka, Kansas
Topeka Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Topeka ( tə-PEE-kə) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census.
The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka...
Job Summary
Description:
- Sets up and operates self-propelled or truck-mounted drilling machine to bore blasting holes in overburden at strip mine, open pit, quarry, or construction site: positions and stabilizes machine, using jacks, and lowers drill shaft into position.
- Moves levers to start and advance drill into overburden, ore, or rock formation.
- Stops drill to install additional drill stems.
- Observes operation to detect binding or stoppage of drill.
- Removes drill when specified depth has been reached.
- Replaces broken or worn parts, using handtools, and lubricates equipment.
- May charge and set off explosives in blasting holes.
- May be assisted by driller helper (construction; mine & quarry).
- May be designated according to type of drill operated as tractor-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry); rotary-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry); wagon-drill operator (construction; mine & quarry).
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ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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