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Helpers--Extraction Workers

SOC 47-5081 · 2024-2034

Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California

$53,121per year

Projected openings

1,270

Projected change

0%

Usually needs

High school diploma or equivalent

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

1. Monitoring
2. Operations Monitoring
3. Operation and Control
4. Equipment Maintenance
5. Troubleshooting
6. Repairing

Pay by region

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under

$38,054

A quarter earn under

$47,626

Half earn under

$53,121

Three quarters earn under

$59,900

The highest-paid tenth earn over

$63,741

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.