Hourly Pay vs. ticket time

Ticket time means you get paid for the amount of time the company thinks it should take to do that load. If the company bills the customer for 2 hours, you get paid for 2 hours - regardless of how long it takes you to do that load.

If you work quickly, if the disposals aren't backed up, and if you don't have to go very far down a 15 MPH lease road, you can come out ahead. If the reverse is true, you can come out behind.

 

rockinchair did not know they still payed by ticket pay anymore, i thought most states banned ticket pay because it was usually unfair to the workers.

 

depends what your doing personalty i like hourly your get paid for any break down time. waiting time ect. now sometimes ticket time you can do better as well. now a company i used to work for paid there hot oil truck drivers ticket time. however they got to bill time too and from the shop on every dispatch even if they were only a mile away from where they were at to where they were going. and dispatch tryed to minimize there travel time. so if they got dispatched to treat 10 wells all 15 mins from each other they got paid a extra hour and a half for each one.

now iv had it on the flip side too where say your working on a frac thats 1hr each way from the yard and the oil company says you can only charge 1hr for travel time a day so you eat 1hr a day for your time back to the yard. or say you break down for 2 hours under a load and cant bill for that time you dont get paid for it.

so basicly hourly, you get paid for what you have into it. ticket time you may come out ahead you may take it in the shorts.

if i was going to hire a driver for my truck i would pay on a % of the gross just because its the safest way for the truck owner to make sure they are making money. then when you get the good paying jobs your driver is getting a bit extra as well. theirs a lot of different ways people pay in the oil feilds they all got there advantages and disadvantages.

 

Companys around Midland Odessa area pay ticket time but with a twist. You get 4 hrs per ticket or x amt per hour for your shift whichever is more.

Wallace