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Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers Salary in MI

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers in MI have a median annual salary of $69,540, with 40 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $46,800 at the 10th percentile to $118,810 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$69,540

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$33.43

Employment

40

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$46,800
10th
$49,980
25th
$69,540
Median
$95,860
75th
$118,810
90th

Local compared with national

MI

$69,540

Median annual · 2025

United States

$61,770

Median annual · 2025

The MI median is 12.6% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $7,770).

Top skills

  1. 1.Operations MonitoringImportance 3.9
  2. 2.MonitoringImportance 3.5
  3. 3.Operation and ControlImportance 3.5
  4. 4.Reading ComprehensionImportance 3.1
  5. 5.Active ListeningImportance 3.1
  6. 6.SpeakingImportance 3.1
  7. 7.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.1
  8. 8.TroubleshootingImportance 3.0
  9. 9.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.0
  10. 10.Time ManagementImportance 3.0
  11. 11.WritingImportance 2.9
  12. 12.Active LearningImportance 2.9

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
Job zone
2

Technology used

  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word
  • Operational databases
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software

Common tasks

  • Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
  • Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
  • Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
  • Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
  • Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
  • Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.
  • Tend vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts.
  • Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
  • Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped.
  • Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

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