Oklahoma · NAICS 211 · Annual, 2025
Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 211 in Oklahoma, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 211) employed about 9,970 people in Oklahoma across roughly 869 establishments, with average annual pay of $194,480.
Employment in Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma declined 15.9% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 7.8× as concentrated in Oklahoma as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 7.81). Average pay in the industry is 218.9% 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.
- 9,970Employment, 2025
- 869Establishments
- $194,480Avg. annual pay
- 0.6%Share of Oklahoma jobs
- 7.81Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,400; 2005 14,200; 2006 16,200; 2007 18,000; 2008 19,800; 2009 19,400; 2010 18,700; 2011 21,100; 2012 24,000; 2013 24,300; 2014 24,100; 2015 23,900; 2016 20,900; 2017 18,700; 2018 18,000; 2019 16,300; 2020 13,400; 2021 11,700; 2022 12,000; 2023 12,200; 2024 11,800; 2025 9,970.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9,966 | 869 | $194,479 | 15.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 11,850 | 906 | $168,540 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 12,180 | 932 | $165,780 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 11,965 | 946 | $159,860 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 11,658 | 977 | $151,703 | 12.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 13,383 | 1,028 | $150,708 | 17.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 16,251 | 1,097 | $145,703 | 9.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 18,001 | 1,110 | $147,774 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 18,736 | 1,145 | $137,323 | 10.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 20,919 | 1,320 | $125,702 | 12.3% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Oil and Gas Extraction in Oklahoma, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for 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.