Heavy equipment operator salary in Corvallis, OR
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Heavy equipment operators in the Corvallis, OR area earn a median of $61,780 a year, or $29.70 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $79,090. Across all of Oregon, the median is $73,430, so Corvallis pays 16% less than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $24.46/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 60
- After cost of living
- $59,390
- Median hourly pay
- $29.70/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +3%
- vs Oregon median
- −16%
- Mean (average) pay
- $64,860 a year · $31.18 an hour
Pay by percentile
What heavy equipment operators in Corvallis, OR earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $24.46 | $50,880 |
| 25th percentile | $28.11 | $58,470 |
| Median (50th) | $29.70 | $61,780 |
| 75th percentile | $34.20 | $71,140 |
| 90th percentile | $38.03 | $79,090 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Corvallis, OR compares
- Corvallis has the lowest heavy equipment operator median of the 8 Oregon metro areas with published pay.
- Heavy equipment operators are less concentrated in the Corvallis area than nationally: 1.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.50 times the U.S. share.
Other Oregon metro areas
Other trades in Corvallis, OR
Questions
- Do heavy equipment operators make more in Corvallis or Portland?
- Portland pays more: the median is $61,780 in Corvallis and $79,040 in Portland, a 22% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2073 (Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators), area code 18700 (Corvallis, OR). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed heavy equipment operators and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (104.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures