Tennessee · NAICS 211 · Annual, 2025

Oil and Gas Extraction in Tennessee

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 211 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 211) employed about 60 people in Tennessee across roughly 21 establishments, with average annual pay of $109,300.

Employment in Oil and Gas Extraction in Tennessee declined 13.8% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Tennessee than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.02). Employment fell 59.0% from 2013 to 2016 and has since recovered 94.2% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 60Employment, 2025
  • 21Establishments
  • $109,300Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
  • 0.02Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Oil and Gas Extraction in Tennessee, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 40 to 60.02040608020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 40; 2005 40; 2006 50; 2007 50; 2008 60; 2009 50; 2010 50; 2011 60; 2012 50; 2013 60; 2014 50; 2015 40; 2016 20; 2017 40; 2018 50; 2019 50; 2020 40; 2021 40; 2022 50; 2023 50; 2024 70; 2025 60.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20255621$109,299 13.8%pub.
20246517$115,381 27.7%pub.
20235116$123,401 3.7%pub.
20224917$185,531 15.6%pub.
20214317$90,057 3.0%pub.
20204417$65,251 17.0%pub.
20195319$67,798 15.6%pub.
20184614$63,685 29.7%pub.
20173512$54,901 47.7%pub.
20162412$60,850 39.7%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.

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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Oil and Gas Extraction in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth

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

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