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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Oil Well Sounding Device Operator Salary
in Mequon, Wisconsin
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$50,158 (USD)
Average Salary
$24/hr
Average Hourly
$732
Average Bonus
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The average pay for an Oil Well Sounding Device Operator is $50,158 a year and $24 an hour in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States. The average salary range for an Oil Well Sounding Device Operator is between $36,766 and $59,739. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Mequon, Wisconsin.
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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About Mequon, Wisconsin
Mequon Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Mequon () is the most populous city in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,142 at the 2020 census. Located on Lake Michigan's western shore with significant commercial developments along Interstate 43, the community is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Despite being the third-largest city in Wisconsin by land area, approximately half of Mequon's land is undeveloped, and agriculture plays a significant role in the local economy.
When the first white settlers arrived in the 1830s, the Mequon area was inhabited by the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Sauk people. In the 1840s, German...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells, or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells, using specialized subsurface tools and instruments: directs sample-taker operator to assemble and connect pipe and hydraulic lines of flushing equipment to wellhead.
- Starts pumps which circulate water, oil, or other fluid through well, removing sand and other materials obstructing free flow of oil.
- Perforates well casing or sidewall of borehole with explosive charge perforator operator, oil well.
- Assembles and lowers detection instruments into wells having drill pipe, drilling tools, or other obstructions wedged in well.
- Interprets instrument readings to ascertain depth of obstruction.
- Directs lowering of specialized equipment to point of obstruction and pushes switches or pulls levers to back-off pipe by chemical or explosive action, or to sever pipe at point of obstruction, permitting recovery of pipestring and resumption of drilling operations.
- Assembles and operates sound wave generating and detecting mechanisms for determining fluid level in wells.
- May operate hoist to lower and raise tools hoist operator.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for an Oil Well Sounding Device Operator is $50,158 a year and $24 an hour in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States. The average salary range for an Oil Well Sounding Device Operator is between $36,766 and $59,739. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Mequon, Wisconsin.
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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Oil Well Sounding Device Operator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
Job family population: 46,150
Estimated population of Oil Well Sounding Device Operator jobs: 33,698
Rate of error: 3.0%
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About Mequon, Wisconsin
Mequon Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Mequon () is the most populous city in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,142 at the 2020 census. Located on Lake Michigan's western shore with significant commercial developments along Interstate 43, the community is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Despite being the third-largest city in Wisconsin by land area, approximately half of Mequon's land is undeveloped, and agriculture plays a significant role in the local economy.
When the first white settlers arrived in the 1830s, the Mequon area was inhabited by the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Sauk people. In the 1840s, German...
Job Summary
Description:
- Operates equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells, or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells, using specialized subsurface tools and instruments: directs sample-taker operator to assemble and connect pipe and hydraulic lines of flushing equipment to wellhead.
- Starts pumps which circulate water, oil, or other fluid through well, removing sand and other materials obstructing free flow of oil.
- Perforates well casing or sidewall of borehole with explosive charge perforator operator, oil well.
- Assembles and lowers detection instruments into wells having drill pipe, drilling tools, or other obstructions wedged in well.
- Interprets instrument readings to ascertain depth of obstruction.
- Directs lowering of specialized equipment to point of obstruction and pushes switches or pulls levers to back-off pipe by chemical or explosive action, or to sever pipe at point of obstruction, permitting recovery of pipestring and resumption of drilling operations.
- Assembles and operates sound wave generating and detecting mechanisms for determining fluid level in wells.
- May operate hoist to lower and raise tools hoist operator.
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Who We Are
ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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