Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, aged to 2026 using compounded market movement. State selections show BLS state-level figures where published. Actual pay varies with experience, industry, and organization size.
Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers salary by state
Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers is a professional role in the Transportation and Material Moving job family, focused on Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers work. Pay for this title reflects both its level and its scope; see our Title Level and Organization Responsibility guides for how WePayFairly defines them.
What Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumperss do
Typical education: High School Diploma
Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
Top skills:Operations MonitoringOperation and ControlMonitoringSpeakingReading ComprehensionCritical Thinking
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Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers salary by industry
Construction
2,700 workers
$64,000
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
1,980 workers
$66,500
Sectors 48 and 49 – Transportation and Warehousing
1,710 workers
$80,500
Wholesale Trade
1,190 workers
$58,500
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
780 workers
$54,000
Sectors 31, 32, and 33 – Manufacturing
360 workers
$65,500
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
310 workers
$59,000
Federal, State, and Local Government, excl. State & Local Schools & Hospitals & USPS
310 workers
$63,500
National sector-level figures, BLS OEWS May 2025, aged to 2026.
How this role compares
Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers pays 4% below the average across 50 roles in the Transportation and Material Moving job family (family average $68,500).
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