Table 6-7: Freight Railroad Employment, Retirement, and Wages: 2011 (1)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
| State | Number of employees | Wages ($ millions) | Number of retirement beneficiaries |
Retirement payments ($ millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3,634 | 380 | 9,262 | 176 |
| Alaska | 525 | 47 | 226 | 4 |
| Arizona | 2,753 | 308 | 9,152 | 173 |
| Arkansas | 3,286 | 340 | 9,690 | 184 |
| California | 8,892 | 982 | 27,029 | 512 |
| Colorado | 2,813 | 316 | 7,554 | 143 |
| Connecticut | 113 | 10 | 2,587 | 49 |
| Delaware | 190 | 20 | 1,938 | 37 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | 1 | 427 | 8 |
| Florida | 4,911 | 525 | 28,729 | 545 |
| Georgia | 7,048 | 737 | 16,255 | 308 |
| Hawaii | 0 | 0 | 177 | 3 |
| Idaho | 1,364 | 143 | 4,435 | 84 |
| Illinois | 12,480 | 1,393 | 33,049 | 626 |
| Indiana | 5,954 | 626 | 15,384 | 292 |
| Iowa | 3,756 | 405 | 8,879 | 168 |
| Kansas | 5,239 | 606 | 13,543 | 257 |
| Kentucky | 4,226 | 452 | 14,425 | 273 |
| Louisiana | 3,007 | 319 | 7,173 | 136 |
| Maine | 704 | 62 | 2,645 | 50 |
| Maryland | 1,509 | 162 | 8,451 | 160 |
| Massachusetts | 777 | 74 | 3,716 | 70 |
| Michigan | 3,206 | 347 | 13,828 | 262 |
| Minnesota | 4,304 | 494 | 14,705 | 279 |
| Mississippi | 1,774 | 203 | 5,851 | 111 |
| Missouri | 7,017 | 790 | 18,612 | 353 |
| Montana | 2,614 | 297 | 5,594 | 106 |
| Nebraska | 11,735 | 1,309 | 12,445 | 236 |
| Nevada | 666 | 70 | 3,233 | 61 |
| New Hampshire | 203 | 18 | 847 | 16 |
| New Jersey | 1,123 | 113 | 8,593 | 163 |
| New Mexico | 1,615 | 193 | 4,297 | 81 |
| New York | 3,252 | 341 | 21,093 | 400 |
| North Carolina | 2,384 | 248 | 9,956 | 189 |
| North Dakota | 1,756 | 206 | 2,926 | 55 |
| Ohio | 7,317 | 759 | 25,135 | 476 |
| Oklahoma | 1,784 | 202 | 4,988 | 95 |
| Oregon | 1,995 | 210 | 7,787 | 148 |
| Pennsylvania | 6,977 | 707 | 33,128 | 628 |
| Rhode Island | 65 | 6 | 524 | 10 |
| South Carolina | 1,714 | 181 | 6,618 | 125 |
| South Dakota | 889 | 104 | 1,422 | 27 |
| Tennessee | 4,166 | 453 | 11,966 | 227 |
| Texas | 16,186 | 1,825 | 33,259 | 630 |
| Utah | 1,782 | 184 | 5,094 | 97 |
| Vermont | 168 | 14 | 750 | 14 |
| Virginia | 5,630 | 582 | 17,000 | 322 |
| Washington | 3,768 | 448 | 10,778 | 204 |
| West Virginia | 2,870 | 305 | 8,305 | 157 |
| Wisconsin | 3,036 | 351 | 9,173 | 174 |
| Wyoming | 2,753 | 311 | 3,058 | 58 |
| United States, total | 175,940 | 19,183 | 525,691 | 9,964 |
1Includes Class I, Regional, Switching and Terminal, and Local freight railroads.
NOTE: Wages are estimated by multiplying average wage by number of employees in each state. For Class I railroads, average wages are estimated based on aggregate data which incorporates fringe benefits, assumed to be 37.5 percent of wages.
SOURCE: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Ten-Year Trends 2002-2011, available at www.aar.org/StatisticsAndPublications as of July 2014.