Forget Tech, Big Oil is Doling Out America’s Fattest Paychecks
- $123,000 median pay beats out utilities, tech, health care
- Aging workforce, pressure to staff shale boom drive up costs
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Move over Wall Street titans and Silicon Valley giants. When it comes to paychecks, Big Oil now looks like the best bet for U.S. workers.
Spurred partly by the shale boom, the median pay for energy workers last year was $123,000, according to data newly mandated by the U.S. That topped all sectors, including utilities, tech and health care. While energy chief executives made an eye-popping 120 times more, the gap with their employees was still the second-smallest among all industries.