This document summarizes the demolition expert job. Demolition experts, also known as blasters or explosives technicians, place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or loosen rock and earth. Pay ranges from $27 per hour for manual demolition workers to $13-34 per hour for heavy equipment operators and $14-30 per hour for blasters. Demolition experts use explosives, heavy machinery like excavators, wrecking balls, bulldozers, and sometimes seismographs to record earthquake details.