Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers

$106,220 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 112% more, or $27.01 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.

Employment as Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers stands at 6,080. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.

Engineering suits people who want their work checked. Sign-off, code compliance and design review are the job, not friction added to it.

We carry no verified training length for Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter earn below $85,280 and a quarter above $136,590: a 1.6x ratio, $51,310 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

Even at the 25th percentile Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers pays $85,280, $35,260 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.

Avoid it if you resent process. Much of the day is producing evidence that the work is correct, not producing the work.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 6,080 people employed as Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers; 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 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $106,220 as where you might be after years in Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers, and $85,280 as where you would start.

The middle half of this field earns between $85,280 and $136,590. That is $51,310 of range, with $106,220 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $136,590. Reaching it from the $106,220 midpoint is $30,370 a year; reaching it from the $85,280 that the bottom quarter of Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers earn is $51,310.

$30,370 separates $106,220 from the $136,590 top quarter, while only $20,940 separates it from $85,280. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $51.06 at the midpoint for Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers, $41.00 at the 25th percentile and $65.66 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.