Crane Operator Pay

Crane Operators make an average wage of $24.06 an hour or $50,040 a year. The middle-earning 50 percent of crane operators reported wages of between $17.07and $29.36 an hour, with annual salaries ranging from $35,510 to $61,060 per year.

Half of all crane operators reported annual salaries ranging from $37,410 to $63,260. However, offshore oil rig crane operators tend to make a bit more. According to statistics released by the salary website Indeed, the national average salary for an offshore crane operator was $65,000 per year as of May 2014.

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