Nevada·Construction and Extraction Occupations·SOC 47-5049

Best Underground Mining Machine Operator, All Other programs in Nevada, ranked by enrollment

All underground mining machine operators not listed.

1 schools in Nevada run programs that feed this job, graduating 1 people a year. The job pays a median of $59,810 in Nevada across about jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

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Graduates / yr
1
in Nevada
Median pay · Nevada
$59,810
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
19%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Nevada that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Nevada that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Nevada (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Nevada page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 49.0202In Nevada
1
100.0%
1$42,812$7,572

Top 1 schools in Nevada

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV Public · 1 feeder programs
1Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation19%

All 1 schools in Nevada

Every school in Nevada with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Nevada that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
College of Southern NevadaLas VegasPublic11

What underground mining machine operators, all other earn in Nevada

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Nevada
$59,810
Mean annual
$65,800
Jobs in state
What the range looks like
10th pct$48,130Median$59,81090th pct$87,830
Versus the national median
-14.7%

U.S. median $70,130. Nevada pays below the national figure.

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
-6.1%
Decline
Openings per year
400
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
-200
3,600 → 3,400
Typical entry education
No formal educational credential
Plus moderate-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other page.

How to become a Underground Mining Machine Operator, All Other

Typical entry education
No formal educational credential
On-the-job training
Moderate-term on-the-job training

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Nevada

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 49.0202Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation

Common questions

Answers for people weighing underground mining machine operators, all other programs in Nevada.

What degree do you need to become an Underground Mining Machine Operator, All Other?+

No formal educational credential is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation, which awarded 1 degrees in Nevada in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Underground Mining Machine Operator, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Ground Transportation. Together they graduate about 1 people a year in Nevada.

How much do underground mining machine operators, all other earn in Nevada?+

The median is $59,810 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 14.7% below the U.S. median of $70,130. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for underground mining machine operators, all other growing?+

BLS projects a -6.1% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, decline, with roughly 400 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Nevada?+

1 institutions in Nevada reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

Do you need training or experience beyond a degree?+

BLS lists 'None' for related work experience and 'Moderate-term on-the-job training' for on-the-job training typically needed to reach competency.

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About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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