Dredge Operators

Dredge Operators pays $49,640, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $380 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.

There are 1,040 of these posts in the country. Plan on the assumption that the job will not appear where you already live, because on those numbers it usually will not.

These roles suit people who prefer to be busy physically rather than sat still, and who value being able to find the same job in any city.

No verified preparation time is on file for Dredge Operators. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

$15,640 separates the bottom quarter at $46,430 from the top quarter at $62,070, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Dredge Operators pays less than moving out of it would.

At $46,430 — $22.32 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Dredge Operators still means being paid like the average American worker.

Avoid it if you need pay that rises with time served; in much of this category it does not.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 1,040 people employed as Dredge Operators; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.3x between $46,430 and $62,070, this is a narrow distribution. $49,640 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.

In cash terms the middle half of Dredge Operators runs $46,430 to $62,070 — $15,640 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $49,640.

Between $46,430 and $62,070 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $49,640. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $12,430; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $15,640.

$3,210 below the midpoint, $12,430 above it. That asymmetry is extreme even for this data, and it means every summary of Dredge Operators that is not a median — including any average you see quoted elsewhere — is describing the top of the range rather than the middle.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Dredge Operators is $23.86 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.32 and $29.84, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.