Every Level of a Crane Operator's Career

From $0 a day on a borrowed Bobcat in your dad's pasture to $113.37 an hour 400 feet over Manhattan on the IUOE Local 14 tower-crane scale - every level of an American crane operator's career. We walk the ladder from oiler at the gang box, through NCCCO certification and the rough-terrain seat, up the tower-crane climb, into the Gulf Coast crawler turnaround, onto the lift director's signature on a 600-ton coker drum, and finally to the $1,400,000,000 Apollo–Maxim–AmQuip combination. Real numbers from the BLS Occupational Outlook, IUOE Local 14-14B wage scales, OSHA investigations, NCCCO exam thresholds, Mammoet project sheets, and Apollo and Bigge deal announcements. Named operators, named lift directors, named cranes — Wayne Bleidner, Danny Nolan, Kerri Riggio, Tim Dowdle, J. Keith Anderson, Weston Settlemier. What it actually costs to climb the iron, and what the silence right after a wind-hold call is worth. 0:00 Intro 0:38 Level 1: The Bobcat Kid 2:15 Level 2: The Oiler 4:32 Level 3: The Mobile Operator 7:30 Level 4: The Tower Crane Operator 10:12 Level 5: The Crawler Specialist 12:41 Level 6: The Lift Director 15:16 Level 7: The Owner 16:34 Final 🔔 Subscribe for more career progression videos! ⚠️ Not financial or career advice. All figures are for educational purposes only and individual outcomes vary. #LadderTheory #Ladder_Theory #Career #Business #Salary #Every_level #EveryLevel