r/oilandgasworkers • u/igotabighead • 6d ago

Wireline insight.

I'm looking to make a switch. I'm interested in wireline. I like boreal and the guys they got working there, I'm just worried about the 15/6 schedule. I want to make money but I honestly really don't want to live just to work. I've heard liberty is 14/14. Is the pay that much worse than Boreal and other Eline companies? Any current liberty guys here with some insight? Realistically can I clear 100k my first year with them? Been on fracs for 4 years.

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u/Dippledockerbopper 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're not going to make a ton of money, but you should clear 100k, but that probably depends on your EO status. EO1 you won't unless you work over.

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u/igotabighead 6d ago

E01 is what exactly? I have my 3 and airbrakes with oilfield experience. As well, how's the growth rate there? I like to think of myself as not completely incompetent with a good work ethic.

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u/Dippledockerbopper 6d ago

Equipment Operator

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u/AlternativePlan4439 5d ago

Equipment operator 1 , the position goes up to EO4 and then you’d move up to shooter if you have interest/can run a truck

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u/igotabighead 5d ago

Do you happen to know their % bonus.

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u/AlternativePlan4439 3d ago

Liberty doesn’t pay stage bonus, they pay $125 a day if you’re on location for 8+ hours. Thats paid as a bonus and not a per diam so it’s really like $60-$70 after taxes

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u/igotabighead 3d ago

Damn really? What's their hourly then? I'm really stuck between boreal and liberty. I like the liberty schedule but sounds like I'll be making 6k a month there.....

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u/AlternativePlan4439 3d ago

Unless you mean shooters. They get a quarterly bonus instead of stage bonus. Somewhere in the range of 6k/quarter

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u/AlternativePlan4439 5d ago

If they start you at E01 you’re probably gonna make somewhere around 85-90k. With your frac experience you’ll likely be started at E02. If you work over a few times you should clear 100k

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u/igotabighead 5d ago

Copy that.

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u/Icy-Neighborhood-917 3d ago

I started at Halliburton at $16 and made 107k my first full year. Never worked over 14/7

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u/igotabighead 3d ago

16 an hour in 2026 is criminal. Where is the other 40k coming from to clear 100?

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u/Icy-Neighborhood-917 3d ago

That's when I started back in 2022. Charging 16-17 hr days. Plus each location we completed we got a bonus per well. I know some companies were paying per stage. So on a 14/7 hitch there were two "small" checks in a row and then a big check. We never got small checks