Oklahoma · NAICS 21 · Annual, 2025

Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 21 in Oklahoma, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21) employed about 28,200 people in Oklahoma across roughly 2,658 establishments, with average annual pay of $128,090.

Employment in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma declined 6.8% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 4.5× as concentrated in Oklahoma as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 4.52). Average pay in the industry is 110.0% above the all-industries average in Oklahoma. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Oklahoma are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 28,200Employment, 2025
  • 2,658Establishments
  • $128,090Avg. annual pay
  • 1.7%Share of Oklahoma jobs
  • 4.52Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 31,000 to 28,200.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 31,000; 2005 36,100; 2006 41,900; 2007 46,600; 2008 52,100; 2009 43,800; 2010 43,500; 2011 51,300; 2012 58,100; 2013 59,500; 2014 61,300; 2015 53,900; 2016 44,100; 2017 47,800; 2018 53,000; 2019 48,200; 2020 31,400; 2021 27,400; 2022 30,400; 2023 31,300; 2024 30,300; 2025 28,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202528,2302,658$128,087 6.8%pub.
202430,2942,738$119,139 3.1%pub.
202331,2602,828$117,482 2.7%pub.
202230,4372,883$112,694 11.0%pub.
202127,4123,051$107,306 12.6%pub.
202031,3643,259$106,168 34.9%pub.
201948,1613,428$100,822 9.2%pub.
201853,0113,430$101,805 10.9%pub.
201747,8113,431$100,403 8.3%pub.
201644,1293,581$95,781 18.1%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extractionLQSource
211Oil and Gas Extraction9,96635.3%7.81pub.
212Mining (except Oil and Gas)2,3118.2%1.12pub.
213Support Activities for Mining15,95356.5%5.49pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction in Oklahoma. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.