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re: How much do Plant Operators make around the Lake Charles - Beaumont area?
Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:29 am to STATigerFan
Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:29 am to STATigerFan
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I’m sure you can do the math but 900 hours a year is around 6 12 hour shifts a month. The schedule only has you working 14-15 days a month. The problem isn’t the amount of days, it’s not taking the time to do things with your kids. Someone on a Monday thru Friday schedule that works 5 days a week will have worked 22 days in December. A lot of operators I know don’t want to do those things with their kids and use working as an excuse.
That’s kind of my point. However, anyway you slice it, it’s 900 extra hours of work a year. Most of the guys I know get used to that OT and build a lifestyle around that money and when it dries up they’re fricked. On the surface 150-200k sounds great. When it’s shift work and involves more time away from my family and less time to do what I want, it’s really not worth it. Add to that the amount of anxiety around layoffs and constant restructuring. Tough lifestyle.
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Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:38 am to DCtiger1
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That’s kind of my point. However, anyway you slice it, it’s 900 extra hours of work a year. Most of the guys I know get used to that OT and build a lifestyle around that money and when it dries up they’re fricked. On the surface 150-200k sounds great. When it’s shift work and involves more time away from my family and less time to do what I want, it’s really not worth it. Add to that the amount of anxiety around layoffs and constant restructuring. Tough lifestyle.
You are absolutely right. But that's also why it pays well especially for the requirements. You have guys that at 25 are making more than a mechanical engineer friend of theirs out of college.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:42 am to Arkapigdiesel
Enough to buy a 2024 F-250 for $80,000 at 20% interest
Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:48 am to MrLSU
Yeah we are actually doing both buying Tesla cars/trucks and stacking Tesla stock 
Posted on 12/16/24 at 11:53 am to Chastains
Their pay scale is measured in side by sides and amount of high interest debt held currently. The pay scale adjusts for them to just cover their current liabilities while qualifying them just enough for more predatory lending.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 12:18 pm to baldona
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You are absolutely right. But that's also why it pays well especially for the requirements. You have guys that at 25 are making more than a mechanical engineer friend of theirs out of college
Well, they are working 2 jobs, they should be.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 12:44 pm to MrLSU
I'm looking for a job as an operator between NOLA and Baton Rouge. I have 4.5 years of experience as a chemical operator for a govt contractor. They recently laid off quite a few people. Anybody have a way to get in somewhere?
Posted on 12/16/24 at 12:47 pm to DCtiger1
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That’s kind of my point. However, anyway you slice it, it’s 900 extra hours of work a year. Most of the guys I know get used to that OT and build a lifestyle around that money and when it dries up they’re fricked. On the surface 150-200k sounds great. When it’s shift work and involves more time away from my family and less time to do what I want, it’s really not worth it. Add to that the amount of anxiety around layoffs and constant restructuring. Tough lifestyle.
I agree, it can be a tough lifestyle. Especially when you overspend and make your expenses so much that you have to work overtime. But being a small business owner is often times even worse for less money. You can’t just stay home and let your business “run” in most cases and you will do that for a lot less money. It’s all relative. Most of the time, for the amount of labor and the things you do, it’s a great job. You can’t over extend yourself in terms of debt, I see it happen all the time. Then you are forced to be away from your family. If you can’t support your lifestyle on $100-150k a year in Louisiana you have a spending problem, not an earning problem.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 1:04 pm to fightin tigers
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Maybe he can convince his company to keep contributing past his max, but Jesus what a stupid move. Id be retired in 3 years.
Guess you never heard of after tax contributions? You can put in past the pretax limits. Why would you not take advantage of the money a company would give you? Also, I’m sure the 401k wasn’t the only reason he was working all the overtime. It was just something he mentioned. Our pension payouts are based off our highest 3 consecutive years of gross pay too, so that’s another reason he was working a lot. He bought rent house with cash after that year too.
This post was edited on 12/16/24 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 12/16/24 at 1:49 pm to STATigerFan
I get it, I’m a small business owner and I put in massive hours for little pay the first 3 years. The big difference is I can step back now and make 400-600k a year with 30 hours a week of in office time. I’m also still making money when I’m not at the office. With shift work, you’re never really building towards less work.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 1:54 pm to DCtiger1
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The big difference is I can step back now and make 400-600k a year with 30 hours a week of in office time. I’m also still making money when I’m not at the office.
That’s great! But definitely not typical of most small businesses. It’s definitely a lot of time away from the family with shift work plus a lot of overtime. Seems like most people, where I work at least, slow down on overtime once they have families. It’s not always the case because some people spend outside of their means and then they have to work overtime. That’s always a bad practice and can happen in any field.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 3:40 pm to STATigerFan
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Guess you never heard of after tax contributions? You can put in past the pretax limits. Why would you not take advantage of the money a company would give you?
Of course. Assuming the company matches and doesnt just offer true ups; also make sure the penalties are worth it.
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He bought rent house with cash after that year too
He really should talk with a financial advisor; or two.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 7:07 pm to fightin tigers
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He really should talk with a financial advisor; or two
That’s on him. I was just giving you more information since your replies seemed a bit obtuse. It’s all good though, I’m sure you still don’t believe he could have made $285k in a year. We went from you can’t make $200k, to it will be difficult, to you can’t make $250k, to it will be difficult, to you can’t make $300k all in this thread.
Posted on 12/16/24 at 10:14 pm to STATigerFan
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Breaking 200 is tough, breaking 250 is near impossible
This was from my second post in this thread. Quit with your false narrative. You already upped his total 10K in 2 days.
This post was edited on 12/16/24 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 12/17/24 at 2:20 am to fightin tigers
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This was from my second post in this thread. Quit with your false narrative. You already upped his total 10K in 2 days.
Nah. You got me mixed up with someone else. You quit with your false narrative.
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One guy I work with was trying to hit $300k and we had free rein on the overtime. He couldn’t get past $285k though. He worked around 1700 hours of overtime that year.
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$285k is rare. There aren’t many people that will get there. He literally had to come in 4 hours early and stay 4 hours late on a lot of days.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 2:56 am to ellunchboxo
Speaking of caer radio, who else pays more attention when lion copolymer is up just to see if the guy who roars is working. I’ve heard him play 20 seconds of the lion king theme song. After that He’s a legend in my book
This post was edited on 12/17/24 at 2:57 am
Posted on 12/17/24 at 4:24 am to SeymourButts
Since no one wants to say
I'm at 51.40
Last stub was 142,400
Probably end the year at 148,500
I work as little OT as possible, and we are a union plant
I'm at 51.40
Last stub was 142,400
Probably end the year at 148,500
I work as little OT as possible, and we are a union plant
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