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Average monthly earnings up NOK 3 500
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Earnings in oil and gas production and mining, 1 October 2013

The 2015 wage statistics for all industrial sections and various areas in the public sector will be released collectively on 3 March 2016 in the statistics Earnings of all employees.

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Average monthly earnings up NOK 3 500

Full-time employees in the oil and gas extraction industry had average monthly earnings of NOK 65 400 as per 1 October 2013. This was a year-on-year increase of NOK 3 600, or 5.7 per cent.

Full-time employees in oil and gas extraction, mining and quarrying, by division. Monthly earnings and basic monthly salary. Average as of October. NOK and percentage changePublished 13 December 2013
Monthly earningsBasic monthly salary
201220132012 - 2013201220132012 - 2013
Oil and gas extraction, mining and quarrying, total60 20063 8006.051 00053 7005.3
Oil and gas extraction61 90065 4005.752 10054 7005.0
Mining41 20041 8001.538 30039 1002.1

Source: Statistics Norway

The basic salary; monthly earnings excluding variable additional allowances and bonuses, amounted to NOK 54 700 for full-time employees in the oil industry. This represents an increase of NOK 2 600, or 5.0 per cent.

Oil and gas extraction

The largest occupational group in the oil sector consists of drill floor crew, process technicians and other operators, who had average monthly earnings of NOK 58 600. This represents an increase of NOK 3 400, or 6.4 per cent.

Associate professionals had average monthly wages of NOK 63 300. This was an increase of NOK 3 400, or 5.7 per cent from the previous year. By comparison, the professionals had average monthly earnings of NOK 71 900. This corresponds to a year-on-year increase of NOK 3 100, or 4.5 per cent in the same period.

Mining sector

The monthly earnings excluding overtime for full-time employees in the mining sector amounted to NOK 41 800. This was an increase of NOK 600, or 1.5 per cent more than for the corresponding period in 2012. About half of all the full-time employees in the sector are operators or drivers. This occupation had an average monthly wage of NOK 37 800, which corresponds to a year-on-year increase of NOK 800, or 2.2 per cent.