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Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers · SOC 51-8093

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers Salary in the Salt Lake City Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area

Figures describe the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Salt Lake City city limits.

Median annual wage$109,390
Median hourly wage$52.59

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area earned a median of $109,390 per year ($52.59 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $73,090 at the 10th percentile to $109,390 at the 90th. BLS estimates 120 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers in the Salt Lake City metro area earn more than $109,390 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $86,310 and $109,390.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$73,090$86,310$109,390$109,390$109,390
Hourly$35.14$41.50$52.59$52.59$52.59

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

  • Salt Lake City metro areathis metro area
    $109,390
  • Utahstate (UT)
    $105,980
  • United Statesnational
    $96,710

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

The median here is +3% vs Utah overall and +13% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$57,080$77,273$97,467$117,660Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $57,080Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $66,350Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $67,940Farmington, NM — $70,080Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $70,220Jacksonville, FL — $72,050Pittsburgh, PA — $72,190San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $72,930Lubbock, TX — $77,240Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $78,350Corpus Christi, TX — $78,630Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $78,670Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $79,260Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $79,840Midland, TX — $80,540Wheeling, WV-OH — $81,090Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $82,920Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $84,100Oklahoma City, OK — $84,750Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $85,220Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $86,240Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $86,860Anchorage, AK — $92,930Columbus, OH — $93,600Greeley, CO — $93,750Urban Honolulu, HI — $94,900Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $96,730Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $97,210Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $97,530Kansas City, MO-KS — $98,770Casper, WY — $99,500Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $100,660Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $101,600Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $101,910Vallejo, CA — $103,040Billings, MT — $103,110Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $103,250New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $104,540Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $105,580Bellingham, WA — $105,640Ogden, UT — $105,980Tulsa, OK — $107,170Wichita, KS — $107,260New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $107,490Toledo, OH — $107,520Baton Rouge, LA — $108,420Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $109,390Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $111,370San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $117,660

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 Salt Lake City metro area has the 3rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 49 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 Utah

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Salt Lake City metro areathis page
    $109,390
  • Ogden metro area
    $105,980

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:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$42,890First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$73,330Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$49,790Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$42,110Production Workers, All Other$41,460Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$60,190

Highest-paying metro areas for petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugerss · Highest-paying occupations in Salt Lake City 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.