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

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas Salary in the St. Louis Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025St. Louis, MO-IL metro area

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

Median annual wage$91,890
Median hourly wage$44.18

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area earned a median of $91,890 per year ($44.18 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $65,970 at the 10th percentile to $95,140 at the 90th. BLS estimates 40 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas in the St. Louis metro area earn more than $91,890 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $90,580 and $91,890.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$65,970$90,580$91,890$91,890$95,140
Hourly$31.72$43.55$44.18$44.18$45.74

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

  • St. Louis metro areathis metro area
    $91,890
  • Missouristate (MO)
    $90,580
  • United Statesnational
    $58,160

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

The median here is +1% vs Missouri overall and +58% 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 St. Louis metro area has the 2nd-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”.

Keep exploring

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

Construction Laborers$64,500Carpenters$70,990First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$96,620Electricians$77,170Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$82,270Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$77,000

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