# Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other

> All underground mining machine operators not listed separately.
- **Entity Type:** role
- **Schema Version:** role.v1
- **Soc Code:** 47-5049.00
- **Summary:** All underground mining machine operators not listed separately.

## Aliases

- Belt Operator
- Clay Mine Cutting Machine Operator
- Coal Miner
- Coal Trimmer Machine Operator
- Copper Miner
- Digging Machine Operator
- Drilling Machine Operator
- Dry Placer Machine Operator
- Duck Bill Operator
- Duck Operator
- Efficiency Miner
- Equipment Operator

## Tasks


## Emerging Tasks


## Activities


## Capabilities


## Skills


## Tools


## Work Context


## Preparation


### Education Distribution


## Person Fit


## Related Roles


## Career Clusters

| Cluster | Slug |
| --- | --- |
| Construction | construction |
| Energy & Natural Resources | energy-natural-resources |

## Education Level

- **Category:** No formal educational credential

## Study Programs

| Title | Slug |
| --- | --- |
| Transportation and Materials Moving | transportation-and-materials-moving |

## Market

- **Median Wage:** 67220
- **Mean Wage:** 67830
- **Pct10Wage:** 46930
- **Pct25Wage:** 50660
- **Pct75Wage:** 80440
- **Pct90Wage:** 82750
- **Employment:** 3480
- **Area Title:** U.S.

## Industries


### Top

| Naics | Slug | Title | Level | Employment | Median Wage | Lq |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 21 | 21 | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Sector | 2950 | 73530 | 227.91 |
| 23 | 23 | Construction | Sector | 30 | 49580 |  |

### Concentrated

| Naics | Slug | Title | Level | Employment | Lq |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 21 | 21 | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Sector | 2950 | 227.91 |
- **Count:** 2

## Ai Signals


## Ai Outlook


### Exposure


### Usage Tasks


### Bls

- **Growth Percent:** -6.1
- **Growth Percentile:** 10
- **Direction:** Declining
- **Annual Openings Thousands:** 0.4
- **Annual Openings Percentile:** 6
- **Employment2024Thousands:** 3.6
- **Employment2034Thousands:** 3.4

### Sources

| Source | Version |
| --- | --- |
| bls_employment_projections | 2024-2034 |

## Counts

- **Tasks:** 0
- **Skills:** 0
- **Capabilities:** 0
- **Tools:** 0
- **Related Roles:** 0

## Source

- **Dataset:** gold.onet_role_starter_surface
- **Version:** 30.3
- **Generated At:** 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00
- **Content Hash:** cfd984173a08ceb0