Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Heavy Equipment Operator: $59K median posted pay.
From 8 salary bands employers posted on 46 open heavy equipment operator roles in construction. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Walsh Group | 6 | — |
| Amentum | 6 | — |
| Essel | 5 | — |
| Granite | 4 | — |
| Enviri Corporation | 3 | — |
| Orionsteel | 3 | — |
| Veit | 2 | — |
| Fort Bend | 2 | — |
| Eram Talent | 2 | — |
| Clean Harbors | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open heavy equipment operator roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Excavation | 9 | — |
| Emergency Response | 7 | — |
| Student Assessment | 6 | — |
| OSHA Safety Compliance | 6 | — |
| Commercial Driving | 5 | — |
| Project Management | 4 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 4 | — |
| Union Relations | 3 | — |
| Heavy Equipment Operation | 3 | — |
| Forklift Operation | 3 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site76%35 roles
- Not stated24%11 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 46 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Heavy Equipment Operator (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in construction, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.