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Roustabouts, Oil and Gas · SOC 47-5071

Roustabouts, Oil and Gas Salary in the Minot Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Minot, ND metro area

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

Median annual wage$50,490
Median hourly wage$24.27

Roustabouts, Oil and Gas in the Minot, ND metro area earned a median of $50,490 per year ($24.27 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $39,200 at the 10th percentile to $64,890 at the 90th. BLS estimates 220 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Roustabouts, Oil and Gas in the Minot metro area earn more than $50,490 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $39,880 and $62,240.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$39,200$39,880$50,490$62,240$64,890
Hourly$18.85$19.17$24.27$29.92$31.20

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

  • Minot metro areathis metro area
    $50,490
  • North Dakotastate (ND)
    $60,480
  • United Statesnational
    $46,960

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

The median here is −17% vs North Dakota overall and +8% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,790$46,953$59,117$71,280McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $34,790Laredo, TX — $36,570Enid, OK — $36,700College Station-Bryan, TX — $38,220San Angelo, TX — $40,010Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $41,610Corpus Christi, TX — $42,210Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $43,110Longview, TX — $43,200Lubbock, TX — $44,920Abilene, TX — $45,410Odessa, TX — $45,650San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $45,690Wichita Falls, TX — $45,720Lake Charles, LA — $45,900Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $46,060Midland, TX — $47,180Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $47,260Casper, WY — $47,270Tulsa, OK — $47,540Victoria, TX — $47,650Grand Junction, CO — $47,720Cheyenne, WY — $47,780Pittsburgh, PA — $47,830Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $48,030Greeley, CO — $48,540Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $48,790Farmington, NM — $48,970Oklahoma City, OK — $49,930Lafayette, LA — $49,970Minot, ND — $50,490Wheeling, WV-OH — $51,230Traverse City, MI — $51,720Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $52,320Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $52,640Tyler, TX — $55,000Wichita, KS — $57,600Jackson, MS — $60,410Columbus, OH — $66,940Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $71,280

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 Minot metro area has the 10th-highest published median for this occupation among the 40 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”.

Keep exploring

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

First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$82,680Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas$59,400Construction Laborers$49,180Electricians$59,800Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$62,990Carpenters$58,950

Highest-paying metro areas for roustabouts, oil and gass · Highest-paying occupations in Minot 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.