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Service Unit Operator Oil Well Salary
in Arkansas, United States
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$42,630 (USD)
Average Salary
$20/hr
Average Hourly
$622
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Service Unit Operator Oil Well is $42,630 a year and $20 an hour in Arkansas, United States. The average salary range for a Service Unit Operator Oil Well is between $31,248 and $50,773. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Arkansas, United States.
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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$47,885
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About Arkansas, United States
Arkansas Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Arkansas ( AR-kən-saw) is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language, and refers to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and...
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 a Service Unit Operator Oil Well is $42,630 a year and $20 an hour in Arkansas, United States. The average salary range for a Service Unit Operator Oil Well is between $31,248 and $50,773. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Arkansas, United States.
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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Service Unit Operator Oil Well Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
Job family population: 36,320
Estimated population of Service Unit Operator Oil Well jobs: 26,521
Rate of error: 4.0%
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About Arkansas, United States
Arkansas Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Arkansas ( AR-kən-saw) is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language, and refers to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and...
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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ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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