The picture above has nothing to do with this posting. I just liked it and admit it puts me in mind of power and money. Although salaries hardly denote power or money. CostMine is the source of the data I present below on current salaries in the U.S. coal mining industry. As always, we thank them for allowing us to see the full report and to extract from it on this blog. If the data you seek is not here, contact CostMine and purchase the full volume, or get your mine’s HR folk to order a copy.
Let us start with the range and averages of some salaries on U.S. coal mines. Here are some job titles and then three numbers. The first is the low of the range of average salaries; the second is the average; and the third is the upper part of the range. For ease of typing, I omit the three zeros (000); hence all numbers are in thousands of dollars per year.
- General Manager = 75, 173, 209
- Mine Manager = 94, 129, 186
- Mine Forman = 33, 86, 121
- Shift Boss = 69. 80, 105
- Chief Engineer = 83, 110, 180
- Mine Engineer = 59, 84, 119
- Chief Geologist = 78, 96, 105
- Environmental Coordinator = 56, 79, 105
Good to see the chief engineer, the mine engineer, and the environmental coordinator doing pretty well these days. I won’t give the numbers, but average coal mine salaries do not differ much depending on whether you work on a union or non-union mine.
Salaries at surface coal mines are generally less than at underground coal mines. Here are three averages. The first is for underground mines and the second is for surface mines:
- General Manager = 188 vs 155
- Mine Manager = 135 vs 124
- Chief Engineer = 124 vs 105
- Accountant = 72 vs 60
Salaries differ also by region across the country. Two examples. The first is for the General Manager.
- Eastern = 188
- Central = 152
- Northwest = 160
- Southwest = 155
The second is for the Personnel Manager.
- Eastern = 82
- Central = 82
- Norhtwest = 101
- Southwest = 75
No specific trends here, other than slightly higher for the eastern region.
With that let us hope you are getting the salary you deserve working a U.S. coal mine. Hence another picture that has nothing to do with this posting—other than I like it and it seems to capture the float of income.
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