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Forklift certification

Powered industrial truck (forklift) certification

74 live jobs on this board name Forklift certification — 6% of 1,339 live postings.

What it is

Authorisation to operate powered industrial trucks — which on a data center floor means moving racks, batteries and gear off a dock.

Issued by
Your employer (29 CFR 1910.178(l))
Who pays
Employer's to provide
Cost
$50–$100 for the classroom halfAn online course covers the classroom portion only. The practical evaluation has to happen on the actual truck, in your actual workplace, by someone qualified to judge it — so a card bought online is never the whole requirement.
Valid for
Re-evaluated at least every three years, and after any incident

Current price and requirements from OSHA →

Costs are bands rather than exact figures on purpose — issuers change them and a stale number reads exactly like a current one. Every other figure on this page is counted from live postings on Data Center JobHub and moves when they do.

Where it is asked for

The role hubs the postings naming Forklift certification sit on, most first. A posting belongs to one hub.

What jobs asking for Forklift certification pay

Calculated from the live postings naming Forklift certification whose employer stated a number. Aggregator estimates are excluded, and hourly and annual pay are never merged. It describes the jobs that ask, not what holding the credential adds.

Pay per hour

25th percentile$24.52
Median$29.42
75th percentile$47.13

Based on 51 live postings that stated pay, out of 74 postings naming Forklift certification on the board (78% disclose pay).

Live jobs that ask for Forklift certification