How much do Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining make in Tuscaloosa, AL?

Percentile spread

For Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining, the published 10th percentile is $50,720 and the 90th percentile is $61,110. The difference is $10,390, which is 18.0% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $56,260 to the 75th at $61,110, covers $4,850.

The mean annual wage is $56,710, which sits below the median of $57,730. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Tuscaloosa, AL median is 22.5% lower than the national median of $74,500 for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining. In 2024 national prices the local median is $65,810, which is 11.7% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 3.8% lower than the Alabama median of $60,020.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Tuscaloosa, AL is 87.722, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $57,730 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining at $65,810 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining accounts for 0.11% of wage-and-salary employment in Tuscaloosa, AL (120 of 108,460). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (5,930 of 155,495,730). The local share is 29.01 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.