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THE OIL & GAS
GLOBAL SALARY
GUIDE 2012
Global salaries and recruiting trends.

SURVEY SUMMARY
DISCIPLINE AREAS COVERED

24

COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE
REPRESENTED

53

RESPONDENTS WORK WITH
A GLOBAL SUPER MAJOR

1,200+

RESPONDENTS ARE
EMPLOYERS IN THE INDUSTRY

5,400

PEOPLE RESPONDED TO THE
SURVEY

14,400+

THANK YOU
We would like to express our gratitude to all those organisations and individuals who participated in the collection of data for this year’s survey. More than 14,000 responded , which is almost 30 per cent up on last year and this has once again ensured that we can produce an informative document to help support your business decisions.
Disclaimer: The Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2012 is representative of a value added service to our clients and candidates. Whilst every care is taken in the collection and compilation of data, the survey is interpretive and indicative, not conclusive. Therefore information should be used as a guideline only and should not be reproduced in total or by section without written permission from Hays.

CONTENTS
From boom times in Australia and Brazil to unrest in North Africa, our report on salaries once again displays the many trends, events and forces that shape the complex world of how people are paid in the oil and gas industry. We are often very aware of remuneration within our own regional industry (it is one of those topics that impacts us all in some way), however very few of us have a good handle on how remuneration changes as we move around the world.
This is the endearing quality and attraction of this document and we are pleased to say the main reason why it receives so much interest throughout the industry.

2 A global perspective

In general the trend in remuneration for 2011 was up; driven on by a buoyant oil price and most countries around the world seeking to explore for, or extract the energy resources they need to advance their own economies.
Indeed it