Logging Equipment Operators (45-4022)

Occupation description:  Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Logging truck drivers are included in "Heavy and Tractor Trailer Truck Drivers" (53-3032).

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2012 Wages

Labor Force Indicators

2011 Worker Characteristics
Total workers	Nonresident workers	Percent nonresident	Percent age 45 plus	Percent age 50 plus
137	67	48.9	61.5	46.2

2011 Potential Supply
Qualified but working in another occupation	12
Currently employed in a lower paid occupation	2
UI claimants previously working in occupation	65

2011 ALEXsys Employment Data
Number of registrants	212
Number of job position postings	15
Ratio of registrants to job position postings	14.1

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