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What geologists make
Registered geoscientist
$104,000
Junior geologist
$64,000
Senior in mining or energy
$208,000
Job Bank's national median is $50 an hour, about $104,000 a year full time. The top of that range, $100 an hour, comes almost entirely from oil, gas and large mining companies in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the north. Government and environmental geology pays well below it.