Here are some statistics about wages, salaries, and other compensation for United States coal mines in 2007.  The source of my information is CostMine.  They provide so much information that I never could summarize it all or do it justice.  So here and in a more detailed posting at this link, I give you my impressions and my selection of highlights.  You will simply have to get the main volume from them to drill down to your state, region, maybe even mine, and job classification. 

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All due respect to the Juneau Daily Photo for this one called The Hard Rock Miner. 

Seems it is a tribute to “Juneau’s rich history of hard rock mining.”