Texas · NAICS 21 · Annual, 2025

Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Texas

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

In 2025, Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21) employed about 209,800 people in Texas across roughly 8,785 establishments, with average annual pay of $165,380.

Employment in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Texas grew 10.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 4.1× as concentrated in Texas as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 4.05). Average pay in the industry is 112.0% above the all-industries average in Texas. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 209,800Employment, 2025
  • 8,785Establishments
  • $165,380Avg. annual pay
  • 1.5%Share of Texas jobs
  • 4.05Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 151,100 to 209,800.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 151,100; 2005 164,300; 2006 184,600; 2007 205,500; 2008 228,600; 2009 202,700; 2010 204,600; 2011 235,400; 2012 270,000; 2013 289,600; 2014 306,100; 2015 270,000; 2016 219,800; 2017 220,800; 2018 244,400; 2019 247,600; 2020 190,200; 2021 178,500; 2022 198,600; 2023 211,200; 2024 217,000; 2025 209,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025209,8358,785$165,375 3.3%est. · 1.00
2024216,9898,932$161,911 2.7%est. · 1.00
2023211,1988,945$151,241 6.3%est. · 1.00
2022198,6188,886$144,362 11.3%est. · 1.00
2021178,5298,974$134,503 6.2%est. · 1.00
2020190,2309,315$140,977 23.2%est. · 1.00
2019247,6339,625$133,256 1.3%est. · 1.00
2018244,4149,496$126,996 10.7%est. · 1.00
2017220,8049,362$126,894 0.4%est. · 1.00
2016219,8419,956$131,500 18.6%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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 Extraction65,52231.2%6.19pub.
212Mining (except Oil and Gas)13,8636.6%0.81pub.
213Support Activities for Mining130,45062.2%5.41est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

Data Tactical Group is an independent company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any federal agency.

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

This page shows annual figures for mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction in Texas. 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.