subject: 5 Advantages Of Offshore Oil Rig Jobs [print this page] If you are looking for the megabucks in terms of pay and yet aren't that qualified to land a perfect white collar job, then working in an offshore oil rig could just make your dreams come true. All it takes is guts and physical strength to get a high paying oil rig job and the mindset to rough it out. The five main advantages of taking up a job with an offshore oil rig are as follows:
*You get two weeks leave for working every two weeks. That's a total of twenty six weeks in a year. No job is going to give you that privilege.
*The pay is always attractive and even and a beginner with no prior experience could get an annual salary of around $45,000. This could go up to $55,000 per annum with some more experience especially if the worker is unionized.
*The industry's labor turnover is high, so a job is always available, even during recessionary periods. An experienced worker will never be without a job. The lucrative pay comes as an incentive to retain experienced workers as also to attract newcomers. This is because working conditions in oil rigs are far too tough and most newcomers leave for more comfortable on land working conditions.
*With on land oil fields drying up gradually, oil companies are exploring new areas in hostile environments like Northern Canada and Alaska. To attract workers, they are offering a host of benefits like medical and accident insurance and free board and lodging to their workers, apart from the lucrative pay packet which could help you save substantially as a newcomer to the profession. So getting hired is no problem at all. Moreover, if you are single, your mobility poses to be no problem at all.
*As a skilled worker, you stand to earn around $55,000 to $65,000 per annum. An oil rig cook makes around $60,000 as compared to an executive chef of a large catering company. So do scaffolders and rig welders, which is basically double of what they would have earned on an on land construction site. If you are a qualified engineer, making a whopping $80,000 per year in an offshore oil rig is no problem either.
The best part of being employed in an offshore oil rig is that growth prospects are immense in the long run and all you need is perseverance, patience and training to go up in the hierarchy. Once you've attained the desired seniority, the sky's the limit.
