Arm pay and truck pay are billed separately on most jobs, so they are shown separately here. If your labor rate looks fine but your rig rate does not, that is usually where the money is going missing.
Gathered Oct 10, 2026 from public salary and freight sources. These are not RigTicket figures and are never mixed into the tables above.
Arm pay only, separate from the truck. US averages land near $43 to $47.
Truck pay on top of arm pay, the usual split on pipeline work.
RigTicket figures are quartiles rather than averages, so one emergency call-out at triple rate cannot drag the number somewhere nobody charges. Middle is the median and half of everyone sits between low and high. Published ranges are listed separately, dated and sourced, and are never mixed into them.
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