Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining pays $74,500 at the midpoint, 49% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.

With 5,930 employed nationally, Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining is a small occupation. Small occupations are quiet: few postings, slow turnover, and a real chance that the person you would replace is not going anywhere.

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.

We carry no verified training length for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$17,740 separates the bottom quarter at $61,410 from the top quarter at $79,150, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining pays less than moving out of it would.

Even the bottom quarter of Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining earns $61,410 — $29.52 an hour and $11,390 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.

Avoid it if working a rotation away from home would not be sustainable for the people you live with.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 5,930 people employed as Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining; 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.

A 1.3x ratio from $61,410 to $79,150 makes $74,500 a dependable planning number. Dependable is the whole offer here — there is not much room above it.

In cash terms the middle half of Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining runs $61,410 to $79,150 — $17,740 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $74,500.

The 75th percentile is $79,150. Reaching it from the $74,500 midpoint is $4,650 a year; reaching it from the $61,410 that the bottom quarter of Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining earn is $17,740.

Getting from $61,410 to the $74,500 midpoint is $13,090; getting from there to $79,150 is only $4,650. The hard part of the range is the lower half, which is also the half a newcomer starts in.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining is $35.81 an hour. The quarters sit at $29.52 and $38.05, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.