Whats the salary of a locomotive engineer?

Answer 1

Normally 70,000 up to 100,000+ depending on location, length in miles per run and exactly what type of job your doing. But no matter what you do get paid quite well. added answer.... I am a Locomotive Engineer in Canada. I work frieght for Canadian Pacific Railway. 2008 I made $98,500.00 cdn. I could have made about $105.000.00 if I had not takin time off. I also got 6 weeks av in 2008. The more senior jobs on road switches can make a easy $110,000 a year.

Answer 2

It depends on the job and railroad and how much one wants to work however most class 1 railroads average around 75000 a year. Some make considerable more and some less depending on assignment and amount worked.

Again it depends...the extraboard out west on UP pays roughly 8000 per month, about 96,000 per year and more if you stay marked up as they run the extraboard short. A pool job where I work pays from 6600 to 8000 per month and you dont have to work as much as extraboard. We have long runs but I would say that the 75,000 average figure is very accurate, some places less and some places more.