re: How much are plant operators at the LNG plants making per hour?

This place would improve immediately

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The operator pay at just about every plant is significantly higher than the engineers.

They aren't sitting here with me in this control room at 9pm on Christmas eve either.

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maybe starting out...talking total salary but not close per hour pay and after you make senior.... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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It’s a big world out there. the universe doesn’t revolve around southwest Louisiana

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why you singling out swla? what about SELA and Houston? lot more plants there

and you can be an operator and be a great dad. raised us by himself. but it aint easy and its lot of sacrifices.

there are so many things wrong in this thread....typical when operator jobs are mentioned.

but god damn...operators...will yall please stfu sometimes? yall bring half this shite on yourselves. Making 200k household is nothing crazy at all and half of you act like yall in the top 0.1%. Chill out and stop bragging about 1000 hours of OT a year.

especially the guys like dickeys who have really no clue wtf they are talking about outside of their particular plant. Especially your talk about engineers dont make what operators make

plenty of engineers at the big plants knocking 200k plus before bonus. In LNG....they are hiring senior guys at 225k plus 50-75k bonus. Factor in hourly pay than they are making way way way more per hour especially when most are on 9-80 and are lucky to average 40 hours the two weeks, many times its 35. their bonuses are much high too.

now LNG life aint for me for the exact reasons others said. frick driving 3 hours total each day. hourly rate is actually less when you factor that in...but them big bonuses are nice.


alot of great things about working in the plant. hard for any operator to make the money they do any other way. just like engineers are paid much higher along the gulf coast for the most part because of the plants. But there are certainly some downsides and shift work and missing things is one of those. You will sacrifice a bunch of family time for that.

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About 50 hours a week. Most weeks you don't have to work that as a short shut down can be a third of your total hours for a year. The hours don't really matter the pay codes do. Some places get OT after 8, triple holidays, double time on 7th day. I've taken a ten week paternity leave my 5 weeks of vacation and still made 200k. Which days you work makes a huge difference. My plant is one of the lowest top pays on the river 50 bucks an hour. Venture starts at that for outside technicians.

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thats still almost 500 hours of ot at 75 an hour.

look operators make a damn good living. very very good and way more than most white collar

but even so...stop acting like its effortless. nothing effortless about working an extra 40 hours per month.

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Making 200k household is nothing crazy at all and half of you act like yall in the top 0.1%. Chill out and stop bragging about 1000 hours of OT a year.

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My man

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bro...shite is annoying as frick. and i work at a plant..

pretty typical of a lot of operators though...think nobody else makes shite in the plant

lots of great guys in operators, lots of great dads and husbands....and they do make great money...but it sure as frick as all sunshine and rainbows and working what amounts to an extra week for normal people per month...isnt fricking effortless especially when you factor in many have the wife at home to take care of the family while he works shift.

its not an easy life and shift work is proven to take years off your life.


great life if you dont have an education but it aint glamorous like so many make it out to be on here

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I think that's the biggest rub every time this topic comes up. I have a bunch of friends in plants, and they all miss a ton of family time and never glamorize shift work. It's a great career opportunity but to act like working even 500 hours of OT is normal is just out of touch with reality.

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my father raised us by himself and was in it, always encouraged me to at least get engineering degree if gonna work in the plant for that very reason

To me 50 hours a week is not a big deal. To each their own. I have 500 hours of overtime at 50 an hour and made 200k. I have no vacation (5 weeks) or sick time remaining. You can't look at base hourly rate and just 1.5 and calculate a plant workers pay. Every single plant is different. I can work the same OT hours as someone else and make more money the days you specifically work matter. For example this pay period I was scheduled on nights Christmas and Christmas eve (missed nothing) and picking up New years day which I should be off . For Christmas and Christmas eve the pay is hours worked x1.5 plus 8 hours. New years will be x2.5 plus 8 hours. This week I'll be working everyday so Sunday a scheduled day I would've received straight time for I'll be paid x2 because it's my 7th day in a row. You also get paid more on night shift most places. If you work days you should've been off in the beginning of the pay period you are paid x1.5 and it counts towards 40 so you'll end up with more 1.5 than straight time some weeks. Physically, regardless of what anyone says running a board is a white collar job with shift work.

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*scoff* engineers ……

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you arent like that but a lot of others are thats for damn sure. especially the young ones that only talk to other young engineers

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To me 50 hours a week is not a big deal. To each their own. I have 500 hours of overtime at 50 an hour and made 200k. I have no vacation (5 weeks) or sick time remaining. You can't look at base hourly rate and just 1.5 and calculate a plant workers pay. Every single plant is different. I can work the same OT hours as someone else and make more money the days you specifically work matter. For example this pay period I was scheduled on nights Christmas and Christmas eve (missed nothing) and picking up New years day which I should be off . For Christmas and Christmas eve the pay is hours worked x1.5 plus 8 hours. New years will be x2.5 plus 8 hours. This week I'll be working everyday so Sunday a scheduled day I would've received straight time for I'll be paid x2 because it's my 7th day in a row. You also get paid more on night shift most places. If you work days you should've been off in the beginning of the pay period you are paid x1.5 and it counts towards 40 so you'll end up with more 1.5 than straight time some weeks. Physically, regardless of what anyone says running a board is a white collar job with shift work.

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i agree that running the board is a white collar job. hell any of the inside operations positions kind of are

and i work in the plants, i know everyone is different for most it would be closer to 400 hours of overtime depending on how the contract is written. to me that is still a shite ton extra but i feel like 40 is a lot. Used to not, I used to be just like you....now...frick that.

im trying to maximize my per hour rate to work the least amount of hours possible. I want to cook breakfast for the kids and be there almost as soon as they good home.