City of Las Vegas / Pw - Streets and Sanitation / Heavy Equipment Operator
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
10 employees hold this title in Pw - Streets and Sanitation. Median total compensation for the role is $131,868, above the department median of $98,598.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 10 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, the median wage for Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators — about 2,460 people — is $63,910. Pw - Streets and Sanitation pays a median base salary of $80,263 for this role, 26% above that figure — about the 74th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators across every employer in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Pw - Streets and Sanitation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators — about 478,090 people — is $59,850. Pw - Streets and Sanitation’s median base salary is 34% above that national figure, about the 77th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 9 of 10 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Pw - Streets and Sanitation is $131,868, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Heavy Equipment Operator is held in 2 City of Las Vegas departments. In Pw - Streets and Sanitation, the median of $131,868 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Heavy Equipment Operator role in other City of Las Vegasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In City of Las Vegas, the median of $118,116 ranks #1 of 12. See Heavy Equipment Operator across all of City of Las Vegas →
Median total compensation for comparable Heavy Equipment Operatorroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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At Pw - Streets and Sanitation, Ozjuane Matthews serves as a Heavy Equipment Operator within Cea. Their 2025 pay totaled $159,799.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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At Pw - Streets and Sanitation, Adam Wright serves as a Heavy Equipment Operator within Cea. Their 2025 pay totaled $142,793.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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Melvin Segovia works as a Heavy Equipment Operator for Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. Melvin earned $142,701 in 2023.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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Grant Strong is a Heavy Equipment Operator at Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. 2025 total compensation came to $142,206.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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At Pw - Streets and Sanitation, Nick Davis serves as a Heavy Equipment Operator within Cea. Their 2025 pay totaled $140,783.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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Jeffery Hall is a Heavy Equipment Operator at Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. 2022 total compensation came to $122,953.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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John Gomez is a Heavy Equipment Operator at Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. 2024 total compensation came to $118,116.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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Micheal Webster works as a Heavy Equipment Operator for Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. Micheal earned $92,258 in 2025.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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At Pw - Streets and Sanitation, Francisco Hernandez serves as a Heavy Equipment Operator within Cea. Their 2025 pay totaled $69,034.
Heavy Equipment Operator/Pw - Streets and Sanitation
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Mark Hooper works as a Heavy Equipment Operator for Pw - Streets and Sanitation within Cea. Mark earned $33,947 in 2023.