Roof Bolters, Mining

At $78,540 against a $50,020 midpoint, Roof Bolters, Mining pays $28,520 a year more than the typical American job — $13.71 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.

Employment as Roof Bolters, Mining stands at 2,160. 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.

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 Roof Bolters, Mining — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The middle half of Roof Bolters, Mining runs from $71,390 to $81,860 — a ratio of just 1.1x, and only $10,470 between the two ends. A band that compressed means the ceiling is as low as the floor; if your plan depends on out-earning the field, this is the wrong field.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $71,390 — $34.32 an hour, $21,370 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Roof Bolters, Mining is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

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 2,160 people employed as Roof Bolters, 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.

With only 1.1x between $71,390 and $81,860, $78,540 is very close to what almost everyone in this work earns. That is the definition of a scheduled wage, and it means the question is whether you want the job, not how well you can do it.

In cash terms the middle half of Roof Bolters, Mining runs $71,390 to $81,860 — $10,470 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $78,540.

The 75th percentile is $81,860. Reaching it from the $78,540 midpoint is $3,320 a year; reaching it from the $71,390 that the bottom quarter of Roof Bolters, Mining earn is $10,470.

Getting from $71,390 to the $78,540 midpoint is $7,150; getting from there to $81,860 is only $3,320. The hard part of the range is the lower half, which is also the half a newcomer starts in.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $34.32 at the bottom quarter, $37.75 at the midpoint, $39.35 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.