Drilling consultant vs consultant

The differences between drilling consultants and consultants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes More than 10 years to become a drilling consultant, becoming a consultant takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a drilling consultant has an average salary of $114,430, which is higher than the $78,912 average annual salary of a consultant.

The top three skills for a drilling consultant include safety procedures, well site and party contractors. The most important skills for a consultant are customer service, strong analytical, and project management.

Drilling consultant vs consultant overview

	Drilling Consultant	Consultant
Yearly salary	$114,430	$78,912
Hourly rate	$55.01	$37.94
Growth rate	-	11%
Number of jobs	5,334	171,733
Job satisfaction	-	4
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 64%
Average age	46	44
Years of experience	-	4

Drilling consultant vs consultant salary

Drilling consultants and consultants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Drilling Consultant	Consultant
Average salary	$114,430	$78,912
Salary range	Between $78,000 And $166,000	Between $58,000 And $107,000
Highest paying City	-	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	-	New Jersey
Best paying company	-	L.E.K. Consulting
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between drilling consultant and consultant education

There are a few differences between a drilling consultant and a consultant in terms of educational background:

	Drilling Consultant	Consultant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 64%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	Northwestern University

Drilling consultant vs consultant demographics

Here are the differences between drilling consultants' and consultants' demographics:

	Drilling Consultant	Consultant
Average age	46	44
Gender ratio	Male, 96.1% Female, 3.9%	Male, 58.4% Female, 41.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.8% Unknown, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 24.3% Asian, 1.4% White, 64.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%	Black or African American, 7.8% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% Asian, 13.8% White, 65.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	2%	12%

Differences between drilling consultant and consultant duties and responsibilities

Drilling consultant example responsibilities.

Manage casing and cement jobs on each hole section staying in compliance with BLM & NMOCD
Observe well conditions and reactions at all times while managing daily tasks for a six man oil rig crew.
Maintain all daily rig logistics, equipment requirements, and manage all third party vendor invoicing as per agree bid proposals.
Manage drilling operations for geotechnical drilling operations
Make recommendations to achieve best possible directional performance including bitand BHA recommendations.
Manage onsite operations safely and efficiently delivering well objectives, in full compliance with relevant standards and operator policies.

Consultant example responsibilities.

Lead IIS tuning to get the maximum through put.
Manage daily data operations and customer support for SaaS web application products in Linux.
Manage several contractors in the development and coding of DB2 interface programs, as well as modification of the package software.
Manage operational incidents and changes to consistently meet SLA compliance
Introduce Jenkins to help automate manual deployments to multiple environments.
Design and code windows service to automate NRA applications email distribution.

Drilling consultant vs consultant skills

Common drilling consultant skills

Safety Procedures, 15%
Well Site, 8%
Party Contractors, 7%
Logistics, 7%
Site Supervision, 6%
Well Control, 5%

Common consultant skills

Customer Service, 10%
Strong Analytical, 7%
Project Management, 6%
C++, 5%
C #, 5%
Java, 5%