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Thursday, March 1, 2012

$10/Hour --> $100,000/Year As a Diesel Mechanic in the Heart of the Bakken

Link here to CBSMinnesota .
Wingate went from a $10 an hour job back home, to a salary of more than $100,000 as an oil company mechanic.
When I was last in Williston, finding diesel mechanics was probably one of the most challenging aspects in the oil patch. Entrepreneurs were buying existing garages for future service garages. Trucking companies and oil service companies often simply bought a new truck when a truck needed maintenance. Time was money and they couldn't wait the several weeks to get maintenance on a truck; it was just quicker to buy a new truck.
The boom centers around Williston, North Dakota, and stretches about 150 miles in all directions. About 350 oil companies have moved into the city, helping to double the town’s size in five years.

2 comments:

  1. Not too bad of a report by WCCO or WDFL as it is sometimes call.

    As usual they are too lazy to get their figures accurate. An off the wall figure of 100,000,000 barrels of oil being produced a day in North Dakota. These people just don't get it.

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    1. No, they don't (get it). Incredible.

      It appears they removed that "fact" from the article after someone pointed it out to them.

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