 Drilling and production engineers tended to make the best base pay, USD $160,026 for drilling engineers and USD $158,964 for production engineers.Base pay on average ranged from USD $96,382-174,283.There are still significant gender pay gaps, which may be explained by males having an average of 19.4 years of experience and females having an average of 12.7 years, and in 2017 more than half of female respondents reported an increase in base pay received since 2016.