Summary

This review discusses salaries, wages, and benefits in the mining industry. Considered are historical mine costs, salaries and wages and the general cost of living. The review provides a personal overview of salaries versus income earned from property investment. The review provides advice to younger mining engineers who are making decisions about career choices and options in the international mining industry.

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INTRODUCTION

Although we are always thinking about salaries, we never talk about them, except in hushed tones, and we never let others know precisely how much we earn. Thus it is difficult to get a grip on what others earn who are doing the same as we do. Unless you have access to a series of publications from CostMine (a division of InfoMine).

In this review I take a look at these reports, compare the salaries the reports list, think back on my salary history as a case history, and seek to answer a question posed by a 27-year old who read an earlier draft. He asked: What is in it for me? So while on the topic, I might as well also ask the question what is in it for all of us.