Earnings
Earnings
for engineers vary significantly by specialty, industry, and education.
Even so, as a group, engineers earn some of the highest average
starting salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees.
 Salary
Data
According the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, tThe median annual wage for mining and geological engineers was $91,160 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $52,160, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $151,230. In May 2019, the median annual wages for mining and geological engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Oil and gas extraction |
$131,850 |
| Government |
110,400 |
| Metal ore mining |
88,300 |
| Coal mining |
87,990 |
| Engineering services |
84,370 |
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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