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He's probably right. I know a few years ago that cementing and production enhancement at Halliburton started at 60K. You got signing/training bonuses and per diems but base was 60. Some of the other divisions were higher but basically proportional to how shitty the work environment was going to be. And all field engineering is in shitty work environments. Some divisions worked on a job percentage basis rather than per diem which amounted to nice chunks of change though.

So the “80% work for $12 an hour the first few years” is complete bullshite. You also glossed pretty hard over the bonuses this type of work gets.

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Posted by Gray12

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Posted on 8/15/19 at 1:10 pm to Sun God

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So the “80% work for $12 an hour the first few years” is complete bull shite. You also glossed pretty hard over the bonuses this type of work gets.

Bonuses are no more than $5k. That’s why with the bonus and $40 per diem, you push into the low 70ks. But you are working 90+ hours a week and it’s not like a roughneck job where you get your 2 weeks on and 2 week off. It’s a field engineer so more like 3 weeks on and 5 days off. If someone at Walmart worked as many hours as a field engineer, the Walmart guy would make more money.

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MWD and Mud Engineers only get days off when rig is on casing break. So it’s around 25 days of work per month and 5 off.

Fracking engineers is 14 days on and 7 off because of government regulations since you are dealing with chemicals.

Wireline engineers work about 100 hours straight with few hours of nap time and get 2 days off.

Cement = 10 days on and 3 days off.

As you can see for that low 70k ballpark, it’s a lot of work with minimum time off.

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