In our Sunday paper there is a list of what people earn. It has movie stars and all types of people anyway they have a conductor listed as making 106K . He is a conductor in San Antonio. More than likely a UP man . His name is listed also. Does this sound like a typical rate of pay?thanx
Yeah, if he’s working seven days a week.
Personally, I’ve never made more then 70K, although 65K is more typical. But I do know people that make in the 80 to 90K range…again working everytime the phone rings.
Nick
There are some mainline dudes who do rack in over $100,000 a yr but as stated above, these are the ones who never mark off and have no life outside of their job. Not worth it. The most I have made in eight yrs on the ballast is $67,000. That is working on primarly lower paying locals and work trains with days off and a life outside the job. Maybe not great by industry standards and what one could make on a condrs xtra bd or pool turn, but it works for me.
I pull in around $60,000.00 on a yard job, 5 days a week with regular days off…some overtime, not a lot.
One of our switchmen on the extra board made just over $100,000.00 last year, be he worked darn near every other shift, so he doubled out a lot…no life what so ever, and it shows…he looks like death warmed over…bought a nice Corvette, but never has time to drive it anywhere but to and from work.
Not worth it…
My guess is the guy in S.A is working to increase his last few years $ for RR retirement board purposes.
Heck we have a few older “protected” conductors on the road and on local jobs that made over $100,000 plus a productivity check of nearly $30,000 last year [:O].
Now they had over 500 starts for the year on the road,and the locals work 6,12’s.
There’s only 2 or 3 divisions on the NS that have conductor’s that draw the productivity check which is like a share of the companies profit for that day.It’s based on the amount of days and employees that’s eligible (pre-85) to collect it.It’s around $100.00 a day right now.
I saw the conductor’s picture on the cover of PARADE (it’s a national Sunday supplement) and after noting his age, assumed that that he was high on the seniority list and was virtually married to the job. I would agree with the posting that suggests that he’s building up the earnings used in calculating his RRB annuity.
Gee, I should be doing that, too–lately I’ve been ignoring the pleas to work my days off.
I’m roughly in Ed’s category as far as the income goes, though this year I’ll have a bit of extra income due to exercising my stock option. Don’t know if that is going to be credited toward RRB, though.
Are you sure he isn’t conducting the symphony?[:o)]
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Aw, ya got me laughing again, Murph! Good one!
I also note my posting about a famous Hawaiian nightclub singer’s passing is toast.
I don’t think the problem was with where it started so much as where it went…