SOC 47-5099 · Construction and Extraction Occupations · May 2025

How much do Extraction Workers, All Other make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Extraction Workers, All Other in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $66,910. The 10th percentile is $38,620 and the 90th percentile is $78,670. Employment is 100.

Median annual wage

$66,910

10th percentile
$38,620
25th percentile
$39,720
Median
$66,910
75th percentile
$67,400
90th percentile
$78,670
Mean
$59,180

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

A welder at work with a torch
A welder at a bench, 2014. Photograph by Chetan Menaria. Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Percentile spread

For Extraction Workers, All Other, the published 10th percentile is $38,620 and the 90th percentile is $78,670. The difference is $40,050, which is 59.9% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $39,720 to the 75th at $67,400, covers $27,680.

The mean annual wage is $59,180, which sits below the median of $66,910. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX median is 17.4% higher than the national median of $57,010 for Extraction Workers, All Other. In 2024 national prices the local median is $64,904, which is 13.8% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 9.2% higher than the Texas median of $61,290.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $66,910 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Extraction Workers, All Other at $64,904 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Extraction Workers, All Other in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Extraction Workers, All Other accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (100 of 4,049,800). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (5,540 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.69 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Extraction Workers, All Other by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Extraction Workers, All Other make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Extraction Workers, All Other in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $66,910. The 10th percentile is $38,620 and the 90th percentile is $78,670. Employment is 100.

How does that compare with the national median for Extraction Workers, All Other?

The local median is 17.4% higher than the national median of $57,010.

What is Extraction Workers, All Other pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $66,910 is $64,904. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.