How Much Do Oil Rig Workers Make?
I’m sure you’ve all seen the crazy videos of offshore oil or gas rigs, where the sea looks like it’s trying to eat everything and everyone.
These videos are true to life with 108 deaths on oil rigs each year, so you would hope they’re compensated for this danger.
Well a recent ad to work as an offshore rigger in the North Sea advertised a £365 a day basic rate of pay for a 12 hour shift. However, the kicker is you can work whenever you like and choose to stay on the rig for 1 to 6 months.
This means if you decided to do two 6 month stints you would earn around £95,420 a year
how much do oil rig workers get paid and is the job really that dangerous yes yes it is I’m sure you’ve all seen the crazy videos of offshore oil rigs getting swallowed by the Sea and although not a daily occurrence they’re true to life on average over 100 of them die each year that’s 25 deaths per 100,000 employees and that’s just fatality it doesn’t include injuries however ironically the largest cause of death for oil rig workers is when they’re not on the oil rig at all instead of whopping 40% of fatalities come from transportation usually via helicopter with the second highest cause of death being getting hit or crushed by objects and the third being fires or explosions so one would hope they’re reasonably compensated for this danger and they kind of are the recent ad to work as an offshore rigger in the North Sea advertised a 367 basic rate of pay for a 12-hour Shi you also get to choose how long you want to work for from a minimum of 1 month on the oil rig to a maximum of six this means if you did two six-month stints you’d be on a salary of 95,4 120 a year
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PAY IN GULF OF AMERICA ON PRODUCTION PLATFORM IS RATHER NICE ! DEPENDING ON WHO YOU WERK FOR 85K TO 165K
7 DAY'S ON 7 DAY'S OFF ! I REALLY LIKED MY 21 YRS OUT THERE !
SAW THINGS OUT THERE THAT THE PERSON ON THE BEACH NEVER GOT TO SEE ! IT WILL MAKE A MAN OUT OF YOU QUICKLY !
most oil commons would rather get cheap labour from third world countries, they see their life as less valuable too. I don't know who is to blame, the company that is exploiting them or the people who let big companies get away with taking advantage of them due them not having any dignity.
How much for a offshore mechanic
25 yrs in this field
Don't know what going rate is anymore, just know I won't go back out till it increases.
Think it's been stuck on same amount for about 10 years and onshore jobs have caught up
I'll pass because of ocean fear and stay comfortable on land with my cushy engineer job lol
In reality you work shifts 2 on 3 off or 3 on 3 off are the genrally normal shifts, pay per annum varies hugely from around £45k a year up to around £90k a year for normal hands, management get more. However fatalities do happen but are very rare in the UK sector. There is sadly the odd one or two. Pay these years is poor and hampered by high government taxes placed upon companies who now pay 78% tax
What does safety officers do there?
Its just a simple fact
Staking ur precious life for millions of bucks !
I'm not saying 95,000 pound a year (roughly 126,000 usd) isn't a lot of money, it is, but for a job where I have that high of a risk of dying and I need to work 12 straight months with no breaks in order to even make that much, that just doesnt seem worth it at all. Especially in the economy we're living in.
I thought they'd make way more.
You have to look at who is benefitting the most from this work. It's certainly not the people who are doing the hard work
No it's not dangerous…Am one of them…
How tf are 40% dying from transportation? Pilot can’t land wtf that’s inexcusable
Sign me up
I'll stay in my office with a barrista thanks.
Bollocks maybe if you're a Sat Diver
That's not a lot of money
67!!!!!
Where do I sign up?
As a plumber I turn over $300k a year to flush turds out of a drain, I'll pass on the rig thanks
Bag's are packed sign me in when do i start. Easy graft
25 deaths of 100,000 its 0.03% chance you die on rig. Chance of dying in a car accident is 0.02% in the USA. Stop whining
it's like working at a oil refinery
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