Hiring a mining and geological engineer in Mesa, AZ
Employers in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ area pay mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers a median of $114,290, with the middle half of the market between $93,960 and $142,200. Mesa residents working in architecture and engineering occupations report a median of $91,760, which is 20% below what the metro pays for this role.
What does a mining and geological engineer earn here?
Place of work
What employers pay
| 25th percentile | $93,960 |
| Median | $114,290 |
| 75th percentile | $142,200 |
Half of mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers in this area earn between $93,960 and $142,200. A band set below $93,960 competes for the bottom quarter of the market.
Place of residence
What Mesa residents earn
$91,760
Median earnings of Mesa residents working in architecture and engineering occupations, 6,896 people. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. Where people live, not where they work, so it is not the same measurement as the wages beside it.
The 20% figure is not a pay gap. ACS counts the civilian employed population 16 and over, part-time and part-year work included; OEWS counts wage-and-salary jobs only. The two populations differ, so read this number against other cities rather than as a shortfall: the same definitional difference applies to every city equally, which is what makes a city-to-city reading sound.
The role pays well above the local residential norm, which usually means you can hire from inside Mesa rather than competing for commuters.
What does the role actually involve?
Core tasks
- Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel.
- Inspect mining areas for unsafe structures, equipment, and working conditions.
- Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics.
- Select locations and plan underground or surface mining operations, specifying processes, labor usage, and equipment that will result in safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction of minerals and ores.
- Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines.
O*NET 29.1, task statements for SOC 17-2151.
Tools and technologies in demand
Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business software applications, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Outlook.
O*NET 29.1, flagged in demand or hot for this occupation. Useful as a screen, not as a checklist.
Is the talent actually in Mesa?
This is a job zone four: considerable preparation needed occupation. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
That matters here, because 31.5% of Mesa adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. That is a workable pool, but the search will reach beyond the city line. Census ACS 5-year 2023, table S1501.
The average Mesa commute runs 25 minutes, which is roughly how far your catchment reaches before candidates start saying no. 16.9% already work from home, so a fully onsite requirement here is competing against that.
How often do these jobs turn over?
In Maricopa County, architectural, engineering and related services employs 25,014 and turns over 8.3% a quarter, with 2,581 hires against 1,975 separations. Average earnings in that industry run $9,315 a month. Census LEHD Quarterly Workforce Indicators, 2024 Q1, NAICS 5413.
That figure covers every occupation in the industry, not this role alone, so read it as the local churn rate rather than as a number about mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers. It still tells you what you are hiring into: a normal churn rate, where a well-run search closes on schedule.
What does the search cost?
The fee is set by the seniority of the role, never by salary and never by location. Across all six tiers it runs $6,240 to $54,340 per search. A contingency firm hiring at this role's median would bill roughly $22,858 to $34,287 on the first year salary alone.
One owner runs the search from market map to signed offer. Searches typically fill in 23 to 35 days, which is a typical window rather than a promise, and the replacement guarantee runs 45 days at 50% off.
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Hiring a mining and geological engineer somewhere else?
Same role, different market. The wage band moves with the metro.
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Other architecture and engineering roles in Mesa
- Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
- Aerospace Engineers
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Architectural and Civil Drafters
- Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
- Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Civil Engineers
- Computer Hardware Engineers
- Drafters, All Other
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Mesa is the 3th largest of 8 Arizona cities in this dataset.