Ohio looks at shale industry employment

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A recent report on the Ohio shale industry by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services shows an increase in shale-related jobs from 2011 to 2015.

The report uses the North American Industry Classification System to define “shale-related” industries. It looks at both core shale industries and ancillary industries.

From the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015, employment in the core industries, which includes crude-petroleum and natural-gas extraction and natural-gas liquid extraction, increased by 6,600, or 96 percent.

In ancillary industries, which includes fossil-fuel electric-power generation, natural-gas distribution and water-supply and irrigation systems, there was an increase of 13,369 or 8 percent.

All industry employment was up 294,711 from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015.

Core shale-related business establishments increased by 41.6 percent while ancillary shale-related establishments saw an increase of 97 percent.

Shale-related business establishments totaled 13,798 during the second quarter of 2015.

From the third quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2015, the average wage in core shale-related industries was $75,071, which was $28,678 greater than the average of all industries.

In ancillary shale-related industry the average wage over the same period was $63,147, which was $16,754 higher than the average for all industries.

The primary source for the report is the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. This program gets data from quarterly tax reports of employers.