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Tool Pusher Salary
in Nova Scotia, Canada

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$54,534 (CAD)

Average Salary

$26/hr

Average Hourly

$845

Average Bonus

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The average pay for a Tool Pusher is $54,534 a year and $26 an hour in Nova Scotia, Canada. The average salary range for a Tool Pusher is between $39,647 and $65,278. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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:
$59,834
5 Year Change:
10 %

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About Nova Scotia, Canada

Nova Scotia Cost of Living Score:

Description: Nova Scotia ( NOH-və SKOH-shə; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh, lit. 'New Scotland') is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 1,070,643 according to the Q1 2024 estimate. It has the largest population of Canada's Atlantic Provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of...
Description:
  • Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drilling oil and gas wells in area consisting of one or more wellsites: directs workers to erect, dismantle, and move drilling rigs, and drilling crews in setting up and operating power units, draw works and other drilling equipment.
  • Plans delivery of drilling tools, fuel, water, and other supplies for use at drill site.
  • Orders type of drilling bits to be used, according to type of strata encountered.
  • Directs workers in mixing drilling mud and circulating mud in borehole, and in use of special drilling mud to prevent blowouts from gas pressure.
  • Orders installation of control head (valve device) to control flow when well begins to produce gas or oil.
  • May supervise operations at producing wells to maintain and regulate flow of gas or oil supervisor, production.
  • Performs other duties as described under supervisor.
  • May supervise prospecting drillers drilling shallow boreholes for use in seismic prospecting or to obtain core samples and be designated tool pusher, shallow-exploratory drilling.

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The average pay for a Tool Pusher is $54,534 a year and $26 an hour in Nova Scotia, Canada. The average salary range for a Tool Pusher is between $39,647 and $65,278. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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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Nova Scotia Cost of Living Score:

Description: Nova Scotia ( NOH-və SKOH-shə; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh, lit. 'New Scotland') is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 1,070,643 according to the Q1 2024 estimate. It has the largest population of Canada's Atlantic Provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of...
Description:
  • Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drilling oil and gas wells in area consisting of one or more wellsites: directs workers to erect, dismantle, and move drilling rigs, and drilling crews in setting up and operating power units, draw works and other drilling equipment.
  • Plans delivery of drilling tools, fuel, water, and other supplies for use at drill site.
  • Orders type of drilling bits to be used, according to type of strata encountered.
  • Directs workers in mixing drilling mud and circulating mud in borehole, and in use of special drilling mud to prevent blowouts from gas pressure.
  • Orders installation of control head (valve device) to control flow when well begins to produce gas or oil.
  • May supervise operations at producing wells to maintain and regulate flow of gas or oil supervisor, production.
  • Performs other duties as described under supervisor.
  • May supervise prospecting drillers drilling shallow boreholes for use in seismic prospecting or to obtain core samples and be designated tool pusher, shallow-exploratory drilling.

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