How to become a mining and quarrying labourer
Official title: Mining and quarrying labourers
Also called: Mining labourer, Quarry labourer
Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.
Main tasks
- Assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations
- Assembling and dismantling mining equipment
- Removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries
- Removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings
- Removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills
- Cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks
- Sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: HK$14,400 a month
- About 337,600 people in 2025, and about 334,700 projected by 2028. (-0.8%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
Do you need a degree to become a mining and quarrying labourer?
Usually not. Only 2% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Will AI change the work of a mining and quarrying labourer?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (Annual Earnings and Hours Survey): Monthly and hourly wage percentiles by occupational group (5 groups) (Tables 220-23014, 220-23024, 220-23003) (2025 (May to June 2025), released 2026-03-23), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026