Posted in About the news, Coal, Europe, tagged coal mine, hr 4402, madid, Spain, srike on July 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
While the United States Congress debates HR4402, a bill which would make it easier and cheaper to mine in the United States, Spanish coal miners are protesting cuts by the Spanish government in subsidies to unprofitable coal mines. These two seemingly unlinked news stories, highlight the tricky question of to what extent a government should go to nurture a home-grown mining industry when it is cheaper to mine elsewhere. First some details of the Spanish situation from this report: (more…)
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, tagged 2011, coal mine, US, wages on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, tagged coal mine, compensation, CostMine, executive on March 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What do the people at the top of U.S. Coal Mining companies earn? Here are some data from the 2010 U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits Survey recently published by CostMine. I have previously on this blog written about the salaries and the wages in the U.S. coal mine industry. This is the final article based on the CostMine survey of coal mines. Keep in mind they also have surveys on metal mines and on income at both U.S. and Canadian mines. (more…)
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, Uncategorized, tagged coal mine, salary, US on March 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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. (more…)
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Open Pit, Underground, tagged 2010, coal mine, US, wages on February 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, tagged 2008, coal mine, CostMine, salary, US on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have previously blogged about US coal mine wages. Now it is time to turn our attention to US coal mine salaries. Specifically what do those middle of the road, conservative folk like engineers, scientists, and secretaries make. You know them; they are the folk who believe they are underpaid. Let us find out if that is true by looking at selected salaries from CostMines‘ new 2008 Survey Results, U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages, and Benefits report.
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Open Pit, Underground, tagged 2008, coal mine, compensation, salary, wages on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just received is the 2008 Survey Results U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits from CostMine. There is an enormous amount of data in this new survey. Here is my personal summary and perspective of some of the information on wages…..in future postings I will write about salaries and executive compensation.
Posted in About the news, Coal, health and safety, Mining history, Underground, tagged coal mine, CPR, dance, death, judge, MSHA, rescue, Stephen Williams, West Coast Swing on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once a year? Or twice a year? Sounds like the famous question “to be or not to be.”
In some ways there is a parallel between the questions. For both, depending on the answer, mean the difference between life and death. Death in a duel. Or death in a cold, coal mine. Because you have too little practice in rescue operations. Now a judge has spoken and MSHA acts.
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged coal mine, compensation, mining, salary, wage on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some statistics about wages, salaries, and other compensation for United States coal mines in 2007. The source of my information is CostMine. They provide so much information that I never could summarize it all or do it justice. So here and in a more detailed posting at this link, I give you my impressions and my selection of highlights. You will simply have to get the main volume from them to drill down to your state, region, maybe even mine, and job classification.
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