Industrial sand and gravel industry employment in the U.S. 2018-2022
In 2022, a total of 6,000 employees worked in sand and gravel quarries and mills in the United States for industrial purposes. That year, about 5.7 billion U.S. dollars worth of industrial sand and gravel was produced by 122 different companies operating in 32 states. Most of the produced material was used as hydraulic fracturing sand and well-packing and cementing sand.