I just herd I am getting an offer for an NLO position in the SE..
I am a freshly graduated ME - anyone else been in this position? What should I expect?
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You are asking about pay. You can expect from about 60K to about 130K yearly gross. How's that for a range? A lot of factors go into it: location of plant, the utility, your seniority, qual status, union vs. non-union plant, whether or not you're on shift (which you will be eventually), and amount of overtime especially. All utilities pay their operators some variation of shift differential. You said "...in the SE," which I assume means in the southeast. I have no idea what plant you're talking about, but here's a rough guess... In two or three years, once you've qualified all watchstations and achieved some seniority, assuming a moderate amount of overtime (let's say around 300 or 400 hours a year), you can probably expect 80K to 100K yearly gross. That's a guess on my part. But nevertheless, it is in fact a very well-paid job. At almost all sites, NLO is an apprentice position that eventually leads to a license. Once a license is achieved, the pay is outstanding as either an RO or SRO. If that's where you want to be heading in 5, 10 years, you've chosen well. If you want to avoid the demands of getting and maintaining a license, and you prefer to end up as an engineer or virtually any other position in the power station, you've still chosen well. Given the constraint of the info you've given, does that answer your question?