Oil Workers Move To Renewable Jobs, But The Pay Is Lower

As thousands of oil and gas jobs disappeared during the oil price and demand crash last year, more and more former oil workers moved to jobs in the clean energy business, but they have also taken a pay cut moving to renewables as the industry still pays lower than oil and gas. During the worst of the 2020 crisis, more than 100,000 jobs were lost in the oil, gas, and chemicals industries in the United States alone.

Some of those jobs may never return, Deloitte said in a report in October last year. On the other hand, there is a growing demand for…