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Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas · SOC 47-5013

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas Salary in the Laredo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Laredo, TX metro area

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

Median annual wage$45,080
Median hourly wage$21.67

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas in the Laredo, TX metro area earned a median of $45,080 per year ($21.67 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $31,990 at the 10th percentile to $72,280 at the 90th. BLS estimates 70 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas in the Laredo metro area earn more than $45,080 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $38,180 and $56,250.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$31,990$38,180$45,080$56,250$72,280
Hourly$15.38$18.36$21.67$27.04$34.75

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

  • Laredo metro areathis metro area
    $45,080
  • Texasstate (TX)
    $49,820
  • United Statesnational
    $58,160

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

The median here is −10% vs Texas overall and −22% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$37,310$56,663$76,017$95,370Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $37,310Laredo, TX — $45,080Lubbock, TX — $45,730Corpus Christi, TX — $46,160Longview, TX — $46,280Enid, OK — $47,000Lafayette, LA — $47,020San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $47,650Odessa, TX — $49,080Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $49,250Midland, TX — $49,470Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $49,940Wichita, KS — $50,650Greeley, CO — $51,650Jackson, MS — $51,860Traverse City, MI — $52,620Grand Junction, CO — $56,370Lake Charles, LA — $56,880Vallejo, CA — $57,020Victoria, TX — $57,050Abilene, TX — $58,830Minot, ND — $59,400Baton Rouge, LA — $59,440Pittsburgh, PA — $59,520Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $60,070Oklahoma City, OK — $60,260Charleston, WV — $60,680Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $60,870Williamsport, PA — $61,280Wheeling, WV-OH — $61,570Tulsa, OK — $62,110Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $62,170Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $62,260Farmington, NM — $64,500Casper, WY — $64,680Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $65,140Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $66,220Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $66,550Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $76,980Cheyenne, WY — $81,590St. Louis, MO-IL — $91,890Anchorage, AK — $95,370

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 Laredo metro area has the 41st-highest published median for this occupation among the 42 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 Texas

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

  • Laredo metro areathis page
    $45,080
  • Dallas metro area
    $60,870
  • Beaumont metro area
    $60,070
  • Abilene metro area
    $58,830
  • Victoria metro area
    $57,050
  • Houston metro area
    $49,940
  • Midland metro area
    $49,470

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$33,740Electricians$46,140Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$46,100First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$63,260Roustabouts, Oil and Gas$36,570Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$46,350

Highest-paying metro areas for service unit operators, oil and gass · Highest-paying occupations in Laredo 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.