Here's a comment about this morning's meeting...
- Oct 17, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 19, 2025
This was a comment submitted to us:
Who else watched that team’s meeting this morning and got fired up. Being an ex Hilcorp employee knowing they pay long term bonus and then someone ask the question and she said all the peers said they do not pay long term bonus. Sadly that is a lie. When I quit my job to come here it was to get away from the lies and perception that you matter. Sadly that is going away at a rapid pace. Hopefully something can stop the bleeding and restore something worth looking for. Also can you provide some basic pay scales or information in the blog so people can see what we are pushing for. Even an example of current pay hourly compared to a union pay would be nice.
Editors Note- Pay info for our actual NS peers is now posted on the blog post "Myth- You're Overpaid"-- find me more info, I will post more info, they control us with secrecy.
Our neighbors asked their managers last lift cost meeting what the hell is going on over at K?? Apparently the manager(s) in the room got real awkward and quickly changed the subject. Are we selling? Or did both Companies top bosses in AK collaborate together to drive down our wages so we quit plucking H guys from the “non” union side?
What do you guys think?
Cause as far as I know we haven’t hired much, if any,WOA guys that are backed by USW…
After the compensation meeting I found it very interesting that the question about other operations on how many pads they cover versus us! Well I did some “ research “ and our WOA neighbors cover 1 pad! Of course each pad is different in size but call it 50 wells. Well walks are split between days and nights. So 25 wells walked! We are doing around 60-80 well walked per operator days/ nights.
O and not including well walks you are covering 5-7 pads now. So responsible for 100 wells plus/minus…
I also found it interesting they compared our hourly wage with our “peers” but the VCIP comparison wasn’t even the same companies.. interesting…
With how close we match the brothers across the river pay for performance model something tells me more than a survey was conducted. The big green H is know for bringing back dying fields and how they do that is by cutting cost, dropping pay, making unrealistic “stretch” goals and never paying on them but the hope for that 4% at the end of the year keeps everyone going at the employees expense. That model cannot be shoe that fits all companies. I truly hope that this is the correct answer I left false hopes as well for a dream of the biggest oil company in the state and I’m left with the feeling that this is just another version…
I also left Hilcorp and thought all the pay band stuff was in the past and now it’s shown up here. I only got a few months of what COP was. The Hilcorp model pits Peter against Paul. Instead of looking out for each other like we have all done, they want you to look out for how to get a leg up on your brother in hopes of a good “performance review”. After 4 years I never understood the pay bands. I went into every review knowing that I wouldn’t throw a brother under the bus to get a 2% bump.
When I told my friend what I made last year… think 250k plus, all they said was they made more than that in OT and bonus money!