Extraction Workers, All Other Salary and Pay
How much do Extraction Workers, All Other make?
Median pay for Extraction Workers, All Other is $50,110 a year ($24.09); the mean is $54,780. The occupation employed 6,070 people in May 2024, and its middle band runs from $39,120 to $65,350.
Extraction Workers, All Other salary data without the self-reported noise: BLS surveyed the employers, and this page prints the ladder, the states, and the metros exactly as the survey published them.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Hourly figures use the BLS full-time convention of 2,080 hours a year. The converter loads this occupation's own ladder, median $50,110 first; type any offer into the custom box to price it against the same year.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $35,720 | $17.17 |
| 25th percentile | $39,120 | $18.81 |
| Median (50th) | $50,110 | $24.09 |
| 75th percentile | $65,350 | $31.42 |
| 90th percentile | $80,780 | $38.84 |
The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($35,720) to the 90th ($80,780). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.
Employment and concentration
The occupation employed 6,070 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. Louisiana is the largest employer at 1,440 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 57.7% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in West Virginia, whose location quotient of 24.53 says this work is 24.53 times as dense there as it is nationwide.
One in ten workers in this field earns $35,720 or less, and one in ten earns $80,780 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.3 to 1 and the annual gap is $45,060. The mean ($54,780) versus median ($50,110) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.
Pay by state
Nevada posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $78,200, and Louisiana the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 1,440 | 0.8 | 19.13 | $49,600 | $44,590 |
| Texas | 1,380 | 0.1 | 2.53 | $49,070 | $47,190 |
| West Virginia | 680 | 1.0 | 24.53 | $65,710 | $65,350 |
| Nevada | 560 | 0.4 | 9.36 | $71,720 | $78,200 |
| North Carolina | 250 | 0.1 | 1.32 | $41,250 | $37,480 |
| Idaho | 150 | 0.2 | 4.60 | $70,930 | $67,820 |
| Georgia | 140 | 0.0 | 0.72 | $45,930 | $42,920 |
| Montana | 130 | 0.3 | 6.43 | $67,010 | $68,660 |
| Oklahoma | 90 | 0.1 | 1.43 | $63,350 | $56,150 |
| Wyoming | 90 | 0.3 | 7.94 | $56,540 | $54,400 |
| Arkansas | 70 | 0.1 | 1.45 | $42,910 | $41,490 |
| Illinois | 50 | 0.0 | 0.22 | $53,580 | $41,140 |
| Maryland | 50 | 0.0 | 0.47 | $51,910 | $46,980 |
| Missouri | 30 | 0.0 | 0.27 | $52,950 | $46,130 |
| California | n/p | n/p | n/p | $51,170 | $48,970 |
| New York | n/p | n/p | n/p | $62,090 | $62,570 |
| Ohio | n/p | n/p | n/p | $41,400 | $36,840 |
| Tennessee | n/p | n/p | n/p | $49,980 | $49,190 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Extraction Workers, All Other stands number 738 by employment and number 518 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Construction and Extraction Occupations, the group median wage is $54,660 across 60 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 8% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 7 of the 18 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $50,110, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.
Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 490 jobs, 8.1% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.
Largest metro employers
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 490 | $50,780 | $50,110 |
| Lafayette, LA | 250 | $48,140 | $44,480 |
| Wheeling, WV-OH | 210 | $65,870 | $65,350 |
| Shreveport-Bossier City, LA | 180 | $51,820 | $48,690 |
| Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA | 110 | $52,970 | $44,600 |
| New Orleans-Metairie, LA | 80 | $63,570 | $54,900 |
| Baton Rouge, LA | 70 | $52,530 | $47,290 |
| Beckley, WV | 70 | $67,640 | $68,430 |
| Reno, NV | 60 | $61,220 | $60,250 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 50 | $46,830 | $42,920 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,176 a month before tax, $1,927 biweekly, $964 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,120) to the 75th ($65,350) is worth $26,230 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.
To place a real offer: a salary of $55,121 would sit between the median ($50,110) and the 75th percentile ($65,350), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,120, is $10,990 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the median salary for Extraction Workers, All Other?
$50,110 a year ($24.09), the middle wage among 6,070 counted workers in the BLS May 2024 estimates. The 75th percentile is $65,350 and the 90th is $80,780.
Where are Extraction Workers, All Other jobs concentrated?
By headcount, Louisiana leads with 1,440 jobs; by concentration, West Virginia leads with a location quotient of 24.53, meaning the occupation is 24.53 times as dense there as nationally.
What do the top 10% of Extraction Workers, All Other earn?
$80,780 a year or more. The gap between the 90th percentile and the median ($50,110) is the size of the senior and specialist premium in this occupation.
How does EveryCalc get Extraction Workers, All Other pay data?
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS bulk files for May 2024 (national, state, and metropolitan), downloaded November 5, 2026. Nothing on this page is self-reported by workers or scraped from job postings.