Occupation / job
Logging Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Logging Workers, All Other pays $50,840 at the midpoint against $50,020 across all occupations. The headline argues neither for nor against it; the case has to be made on the spread, the entry cost and what the day is actually like.
There are 1,700 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.
Forestry, conservation and logging suit people who want to work outdoors in remote places and are serious about the safety discipline the equipment demands.
How long it takes to become one of the 1,700 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Logging Workers, All Other earn under $41,900 and a quarter over $61,450 — 1.5x, or $19,550 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
The 25th percentile of $41,900 is only $8,120 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Logging Workers, All Other still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
Avoid it if remote work sites and a genuinely elevated injury risk are not acceptable terms for you.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 1,700 figure counts people already working as Logging Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.5x. In a band that narrow, $50,840 is a genuinely representative number for Logging Workers, All Other and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Logging Workers, All Other runs $41,900 to $61,450 — $19,550 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $50,840.
Between $41,900 and $61,450 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $50,840. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $10,610; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $19,550.
From $50,840 it is $8,940 down to the bottom quarter and $10,610 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $24.44 at the midpoint for Logging Workers, All Other, $20.14 at the 25th percentile and $29.54 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Logging Workers, All Other. The self-employed are excluded, so $50,840 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $50,840 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Logging Workers, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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