This page contains key outcome data for the Mining and Mineral Engineering Major, estimated using US Census data. See the methodology here. For more on the College Majors Data Dashboard click here.
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Overall Major Information
- Field: STEM
- Average Income: $75,000 (Rank: 10 of 173)
- 25% Make Less Than: $45,000
- Unemployment Rate: 2.90% (Rank: 42 of 171)
- Percent Female: 19.7%
- Percent Who Get a Masters Degree: 25.4%
- Percent Who Get a Professional Degree: 2.9%
- Percent Who Get a PhD: 5.7%
- Major Popularity Ranking: 170 of 173
- Major Difficulty (1-5): NA
Careers Information
This list provides the 25 most common careers (occupations) among people in this major, and how much they earn within each occupation.
- Petroleum, mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers: 28.22% (Average Income: $85,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers: 8.23% (Average Income: $100,000)
- Engineers, : 7.08% (Average Income: $94,000)
- Managers, (including Postmasters): 5.12% (Average Income: $45,000)
- Cashiers: 4.62% (Average Income: $16,000)
- Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety: 4.23% (Average Income: $84,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers: 3.68% (Average Income: $83,000)
- Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks: 3.27% (Average Income: $85,000)
- Stock Clerks and Order Fillers: 2.55% (Average Income: $12,000)
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software: 2.47% (Average Income: $131,000)
- Civil Engineers: 2.47% (Average Income: $94,000)
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand: 2.10% (Average Income: $15,000)
- Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters: 2.04% (Average Income: $56,000)
- Cost Estimators: 1.95% (Average Income: $83,000)
- Architectural and Engineering Managers: 1.88% (Average Income: $69,000)
- Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, : 1.75% (Average Income: $44,000)
- Computer Programmers: 1.65% (Average Income: $72,000)
- Nursing, Psychiatric, and Home Health Aides: 1.59% (Average Income: $28,000)
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks: 1.24% (Average Income: $85,000)
- Other Business Operations and Management Specialists: 1.16% (Average Income: $65,000)
- Food Servers, Nonrestaurant: 1.15% (Average Income: $45,000)
- Registered Nurses: 1.02% (Average Income: $129,000)
- Industrial Production Managers: 0.91% (Average Income: $89,000)
- Mechanical Engineers: 0.89% (Average Income: $70,000)
- Computer Support Specialists: 0.85% (Average Income: $78,000)
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