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Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other

Occupation · SOC 47-5049.00

All underground mining machine operators not listed separately.

Also called: 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

Job family: Construction and Extraction Occupations

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AI work map

A fast read on where AI already shows up in this occupation, where it stays a copilot, where humans remain in the loop, and what the labor market is doing. Built from observed Claude.ai conversations mapped to O*NET tasks and from published research — measures of usage and exposure, not advice or predictions that the job is going away.

about 400 openings a year (-6.1% projected, BLS) . What exposure means →

AI & job outlook

What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.

This is a broad “All Other” catch-all that groups many different jobs, so treat the figures below as a rough average for the category, not a precise estimate for any single role within it.

Job outlook

Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.

Outlook Declining · -6.1% by 2034
Projected annual openings 400
Employment 2024 → 2034 3,600 → 3,400

“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.

Where this work sits on the global GenAI gradient

The ILO's 2025 global study scores generative-AI exposure on the international ISCO-08 occupation system, not US SOC. Bridged through the published (and approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 crosswalk, this US occupation corresponds to the international occupation below. Exposure here means how much of the work's tasks today's AI can attempt — task overlap, not automation, adoption, or jobs lost.

17% mean task exposure (2025)
23rd percentile of 427 placed occupations
−7 pts shift 2023 → 2025
International occupation (ISCO-08) Task exposure (2025) Most tasks fall in
Miners and Quarriers · 8111 17% Not exposed

Read the whole six-band gradient on the GenAI exposure gradient page. The crosswalk is approximate: a US occupation can map to several international ones, and the ILO scores describe the international occupation, not this exact US role.

How to get in

Typical entry-level education
No formal educational credential · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement

What to study: Transportation and Materials Moving . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

$47k10th$51k25th$67kMedian$80k75th$83k90th
Annual wages by percentile — U.S. (BLS OEWS). The light band spans the 10th–90th percentile; the darker band is the middle half (25th–75th); the line is the median.
4k20243k2034 (proj.)-6.1% · Declining
Projected U.S. employment, 2024–2034 (BLS Employment Projections). A labor-market forecast for the occupation, not an AI-impact forecast.
10th percentile $46,930
25th percentile $50,660
Median (50th) $67,220
75th percentile $80,440
90th percentile $82,750
People employed 3,480

Industries that employ this occupation

Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.

Industry Workers National median pay
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction · Sector 2,950 $73,530
Construction · Sector 30 $49,580

Where this work is most concentrated

Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).

Industry Concentration Workers
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction · Sector 227.91× 2,950

What you can do with this

Options the data surfaces for Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

Paths in

How people typically prepare for this work.

Zoom out

On the global GenAI exposure gradient this work sits around the 23rd percentile of 427 international occupations.

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Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other: $67,220 median pay, employment declining through 2034

  • The occupation is projected to see about 400 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • BLS projects employment to be declining (-6.1%) from 2024 to 2034.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • Median annual pay is $67,220, across about 3,480 U.S. workers.BLS OEWS (May 2024)
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Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other: $67,220 median pay, employment declining through 2034

• The occupation is projected to see about 400 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• BLS projects employment to be declining (-6.1%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• Median annual pay is $67,220, across about 3,480 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024))

Source: Singulariki — "Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other". https://singulariki.com/roles/role-47-5049-00
Note: AI task overlap measures what today's AI can attempt, not automation, job loss, or a forecast.

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Sources for this page

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Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-47-5049-00

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/roles/role-47-5049-00

BibTeX 
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  title  = {Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/roles/role-47-5049-00}
}

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