Esmeralda County Repository Oversight Program
Esmeralda County’s average wage rate in 1997 was $29,724 per worker. Of all jobs in the county, the mining industry commanded the highest annual wage at $41,856 per worker in 1997. Relative to other Nevada counties, the average wage rate in Esmeralda County in 1997 was the sixth highest among all Nevada’s seventeen counties, a figure dramatically affected by the relatively high wages in the county’s mining industry sector and its dominance in terms of jobs (45.9 percent of county total employment and 64.6 percent of county total payrolls).
Photo description: Behind the scenes of Goldfield seen through the arch.
