Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining Salary in Eugene, OR

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining pay range in Eugene

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $47,920 a year or less, while the top 10% make $68,960 or more. The middle half of excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining in Eugene earn between $59,020 and $60,910.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining salary after taxes in Eugene

On the average salary of $59,670, a single filer in Eugene takes home about $45,897 a year, or $3,825 a month and $1,765 every two weeks. Taxes take 23% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). Portland-area Metro and Multnomah County taxes and the 0.1% statewide transit tax are not included.

Is Eugene a good place for excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Eugene area are 2% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 101.6), so the average $59,670 buys what about $58,749 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.2 times the median wage of all jobs in Eugene ($49,680). A typical home costs $459,366, or 7.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining salary in other Oregon cities

Eugene ranks 3rd of 3 Oregon metro areas for this job; Portland pays the most ($67,030).

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San Francisco, CA pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($110,990).

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