SALARY · OPERATING ENGINEERS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT OPERATORS · PENNSYLVANIA

Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators salary in Pennsylvania

If Pennsylvania is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for operating engineers and other construction equipment operators was $60,530. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$60,530

$29 per hour at the median · That is $680 (1.1 percent) above the national median of $59,850 for this occupation.

$65,920Mean annual salary
$32Mean hourly wage
$22,120People employed in this job in Pennsylvania

Salary range

25th: $50,790Median: $60,53075th: $77,780
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$50,790
Median (50th percentile)$60,530
75th percentile$77,780
Mean$65,920

The middle half of workers earned from $50,790 to $77,780 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$48,958 a year
$4,080 a month
Federal tax $5,084 · FICA $4,631 · State tax $1,858

Caveat: the $0 deduction point for Pennsylvania was corroborated from a secondary host of the 2025 booklet, not from a pa.gov page.

Pennsylvania local earned income tax and the Philadelphia wage tax are separate and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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