How much money does a roughneck make?

Answer 1

== == A "roughneck" is generally - in Texas, at least - a floor-hand on a drilling rig. When I broke out roughnecks made $17/hr and when I quit most made around $20/hr. I've heard the term applied to pulling-unit hands, etc - who usually start off at $14/hr... Anyway - you typically work 6/2,12/4,7/7 or 14/14 (days on/days off) - obviously you make a lot more working 7/7 or 14/14 (12hr shifts) than you do working 6/2 or 12/4 (8hr shifts) - look at the overtime and do the math... anyhow - there's money to be made working the rigs...

Someone else said:

"It varies. I make 8 an hour, but I get paid 21hours out of the day, so in a week I get 147 hours, 107 hours overtime ain't bad. Not to mention I get paid $35 for food a day + $25 just for driving my own car to the site. I also get paid for my gas and Milage (2 dollars a mile). It isn't too bad...." I guess the term "roughneck" is applied to many jobs that involve hard/dangerous work and require little or no expertise/training/etc... But I'd be willing to bet that if you hear the term in the US (especially in the South or Southwest), it's probably related to rig-hands. I work as a roughneck in the North Sea and earn just a little under 32,000pounds per year.

Answer 2

Depends on where you work. I did the job years ago in 1979 and we worked 6 days on 6 days off 10 hrs a day and I started as a gofer and then the pipeyard and then on the deck crew. I was making about $19 an hour in 1979 and worked 60 hrs a week with 20 hrs of overtime. For a punk kid I had cash $$$$

Answer 3

Working as a roughneck is a dangerous work, you get paid 8,000 a month so annually u get paid about 96,000 as a floor hand. Ofcourse you get paid more as a motor man, deric man and tool pusher. The motor man can get paid 108,000, Derick man can make 124,000, driller can make 160,000 a year. Tool pusher can make 220,000 a year.

Answer 4

26 dollars. Its extremely easy to get a job up there if you know some one like how I know some one who's worked as a rough neck for 32 years.

Answer 5

96000 annaly

Answer 6

75k +

Answer 7

$100,000