Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Oil and Gas Association recently said the oil and gas industry’s upstream sector grew by 1,700 jobs in September. There have been 14,300 upstream jobs added to date this year. Since its low point in September 2020 during the covid19 pandemic, the industry has added or recovered 53,700 upstream jobs in Texas. Increases in upstream oil and gas employment were reported in 31 of the last 36 months. And oil and gas jobs pay among the highest wages in Texas with employers paying an average annual salary of $115,000 in 2022.
The upstream sector includes oil and gas extraction and excludes other industry sectors such as refining, petrochemicals, fuels wholesaling, oilfield equipment manufacturing, pipelines, and gas utilities, which support hundreds of thousands of additional jobs in Texas.
Todd Staples, president of TxOGA, said, “Not only have these high-paying jobs supported Texas families and communities, they’ve made Texas the undisputed energy leader and ushered in an energy renaissance that secures our allies, provides domestic economic growth, and is making Texas cleaner, stronger and better.”