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Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas · SOC 47-5023

Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas Salary in the Pittsburgh Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Pittsburgh, PA metro area

Figures describe the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Pittsburgh city limits.

Median annual wage$57,040
Median hourly wage$27.42

Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas in the Pittsburgh, PA metro area earned a median of $57,040 per year ($27.42 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $42,530 at the 10th percentile to $93,990 at the 90th. BLS estimates 150 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas in the Pittsburgh metro area earn more than $57,040 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $50,880 and $65,350.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$42,530$50,880$57,040$65,350$93,990
Hourly$20.45$24.46$27.42$31.42$45.19

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Pittsburgh metro areathis metro area
    $57,040
  • Pennsylvaniastate (PA)
    $57,400
  • United Statesnational
    $60,190

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −1% vs Pennsylvania overall and −5% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$46,440$62,493$78,547$94,600Birmingham, AL — $46,440Ogden, UT — $48,210Knoxville, TN — $48,410Fargo, ND-MN — $48,510Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $50,400Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $50,680Richmond, VA — $51,120Baton Rouge, LA — $51,200Eugene-Springfield, OR — $51,200Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $51,360Springfield, MO — $51,540Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $51,630College Station-Bryan, TX — $52,000Syracuse, NY — $53,720Boise City, ID — $53,870Tulsa, OK — $55,390Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $55,610St. Louis, MO-IL — $55,700Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $55,920Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $56,120Jacksonville, FL — $56,150Kansas City, MO-KS — $56,830Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ — $56,860Pittsburgh, PA — $57,040Chattanooga, TN-GA — $57,170Oklahoma City, OK — $57,400Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $57,570San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $57,840Lancaster, PA — $57,870St. Cloud, MN — $57,870Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $57,920Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $57,970Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $58,240Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $58,390Visalia, CA — $58,670Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $58,750Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $58,950Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $59,770Jackson, MI — $60,270Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $60,670Akron, OH — $60,790Greeley, CO — $61,090Reno, NV — $61,200Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $61,390Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $61,490Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $61,500Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $61,550Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $61,710Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $61,980Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $62,400Salem, OR — $62,510Jackson, MS — $62,620Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $62,710Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $62,790Fresno, CA — $63,000Albuquerque, NM — $63,180Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $63,300Omaha, NE-IA — $63,330Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $63,440Stockton-Lodi, CA — $63,460Bend, OR — $63,490Midland, TX — $63,730Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $63,760Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $64,200Cleveland, OH — $64,260Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $64,360Colorado Springs, CO — $66,360Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $67,530Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $71,280Flint, MI — $71,650Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $71,790Saginaw, MI — $72,800Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $73,090Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $73,560New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $74,120Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $74,300San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $76,850Billings, MT — $78,410Anchorage, AK — $80,030Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $81,960Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $89,300Fairbanks-College, AK — $94,600

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Pittsburgh metro area has the 59th-highest published median for this occupation among the 82 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Pennsylvania

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for earth drillers, except oil and gas, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Pittsburgh metro areathis page
    $57,040
  • Philadelphia metro area
    $64,360
  • Scranton metro area
    $58,390
  • Lancaster metro area
    $57,870

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Construction Laborers$50,600First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$83,030Carpenters$61,180Electricians$69,340Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$62,320Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$70,100

Highest-paying metro areas for earth drillers, except oil and gass · Highest-paying occupations in Pittsburgh Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.