How not to earn $100,000 as a mining graduate

Is it true that the salary of new mining graduates is $100,000 a year?  Depends on whom you ask.  Bragging professors tell you that it is true.  Impressionable young journalists gush about high starting salaries in the mining industry.

But those who take time to ferret out the numbers disagree.  They say it is no more than $50,000–still not a bad salary.  Seems you can get one hundred K if you go to work in Houston or a remote mine on Baffin  Island.  But if you want to work in a nice place, you may have to settle for half that.

At this link is a much longer piece I compiled that explores the details of this mining salary debate.  Or contact Jennifer Leinart (jbleinart@earthlink.com) of CostMine who is trying to compile the data.