Mine Manager Salary 2026,
What Mine Managers Actually Earn

How much do mine managers make in 2026?

Mine managers are matched to the BLS general and operations managers series, where OEWS May 2025 reports a national median of $105,770 a year ($50.85 an hour) for SOC 11-1021, a bottom 10% near $50,090 and a top 10% at $253,390 across 3,503,020 workers. That caveat needs stating clearly: this is the broadest management code in the wage data, this site publishes several records against it, and its 75th and 90th percentiles are pooled executive wages across every industry rather than a mine manager benchmark. These are also wage figures only, excluding the bonus and long-term incentive that form a substantial part of senior mining compensation. Read with those limits, the band is still informative. Mine managers at small aggregate and industrial mineral operations sit around or below the median. Managers of significant underground or open pit metal operations — accountable for production, cost per tonne, several hundred employees, MSHA compliance, community and environmental obligations and a capital programme — sit in the upper quartile and beyond it. The role is unusual in requiring genuine technical mining credibility alongside general management ability, which is why most mine managers come up through engineering or operations rather than from general management backgrounds. Employment across the pooled series is projected to grow 4.4% through 2034 with roughly 308,700 openings a year. → Full mine manager career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $105,770 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 11-1021, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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