Continuous Mining Machine Operators

Continuous Mining Machine Operators pays $61,810 against $50,020 across all occupations — $982 a month more. Every premium is paid for something: find out whether it is the schooling, the licence, the hours or the risk before you decide you want it.

14,000 people work as Continuous Mining Machine Operators. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.

Extraction work suits people who will go where the deposit is, work a rotation away from home, and treat the safety regime as the actual condition of employment.

How long it takes to become one of the 14,000 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

$51,610 to $77,570 — 1.5x, or $2,163 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Continuous Mining Machine Operators is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

Even the 25th percentile pays $51,610, $1,590 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $24.81 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Continuous Mining Machine Operators.

Avoid it if you cannot relocate to where the deposit is, or if a downturn in the commodity cycle would leave you stranded.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 14,000 people employed as Continuous Mining Machine Operators; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.5x between $51,610 and $77,570 this is a normally shaped occupation. $61,810 is what the middle of Continuous Mining Machine Operators earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

In cash terms the middle half of Continuous Mining Machine Operators runs $51,610 to $77,570 — $25,960 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $61,810.

The 75th percentile is $77,570. Reaching it from the $61,810 midpoint is $15,760 a year; reaching it from the $51,610 that the bottom quarter of Continuous Mining Machine Operators earn is $25,960.

The climb from $61,810 to $77,570 is $15,760, against $10,200 down to $51,610. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Continuous Mining Machine Operators is larger than the realistic downside.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $29.71 at the midpoint for Continuous Mining Machine Operators, $24.81 at the 25th percentile and $37.29 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.