Salary for Highway Maintenance Workers

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The main duty of this employee is to maintain municipal and rural roads, airport runways and highways. Highway maintenance workers fix broken pavement, guardrails, snow fences and highway markers. There is little risk involved in being a highway maintenance worker, although these employees are often asked to work in adverse weather conditions. These workers may also be asked to plow snow or mow grass from roadways. A high school diploma or GED is not usually required for this job. Most of these workers learn their trade on-site.

A Highway Maintenance Worker will normally get an average wage ranging between $27,410 and $61,940 depending on the level of education. will most likely receive an average wage of fourty-three thousand two hundred dollars on a yearly basis.

have the highest pay levels in Alaska, where they receive salary pay of approximately $58,370. People with this job title are paid at the highest average level in Wholesale Trade, where they receive compensation, on average, of $47,640.

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