Coal mining audit reveals workers’ skills, salaries, occupations to help plan for life after mines

The average employee in the Illawarra’s three coal mines earns an average $2000 a week, is aged between 35 and 44 and overwhelmingly likely to be male. These are some of the findings in NSW’s first audit of the skills and occupations that make up the state’s coal workforce. The audit is the first tr

In Region Illawarra’s words.²