Table 6-7: Freight Railroad Employment, Retirement, and Wages: 2012(1)
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
| State | Number of employees | Wages ($ millions) | Number of retirement beneficiaries |
Retirement payments ($ millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3,711 | 387 | 9,232 | 189 |
| Alaska | 525 | 48 | 229 | 5 |
| Arizona | 2,854 | 322 | 9,148 | 188 |
| Arkansas | 3,390 | 365 | 9,749 | 200 |
| California | 8,877 | 997 | 26,826 | 550 |
| Colorado | 2,973 | 337 | 7,735 | 159 |
| Connecticut | 117 | 11 | 2,562 | 53 |
| Delaware | 196 | 20 | 1,973 | 40 |
| District of Columbia | 12 | 1 | 418 | 9 |
| Florida | 4,981 | 529 | 28,642 | 587 |
| Georgia | 7,178 | 748 | 16,309 | 334 |
| Hawaii | 0 | 0 | 174 | 4 |
| Idaho | 1,390 | 151 | 4,423 | 91 |
| Illinois | 13,152 | 1,482 | 32,710 | 671 |
| Indiana | 6,223 | 659 | 15,227 | 312 |
| Iowa | 3,746 | 411 | 8,874 | 182 |
| Kansas | 5,427 | 626 | 13,575 | 278 |
| Kentucky | 4,195 | 446 | 14,340 | 294 |
| Louisiana | 3,083 | 339 | 7,178 | 147 |
| Maine | 650 | 65 | 2,574 | 53 |
| Maryland | 1,535 | 165 | 8,438 | 173 |
| Massachusetts | 823 | 75 | 3,664 | 75 |
| Michigan | 3,194 | 350 | 13,615 | 279 |
| Minnesota | 4,566 | 517 | 14,518 | 298 |
| Mississippi | 1,833 | 211 | 5,780 | 118 |
| Missouri | 7,333 | 832 | 18,593 | 381 |
| Montana | 2,805 | 321 | 5,629 | 115 |
| Nebraska | 12,010 | 1,364 | 12,781 | 262 |
| Nevada | 676 | 75 | 3,236 | 66 |
| New Hampshire | 242 | 20 | 834 | 17 |
| New Jersey | 1,132 | 118 | 8,469 | 174 |
| New Mexico | 1,671 | 196 | 4,242 | 87 |
| New York | 3,487 | 361 | 20,897 | 428 |
| North Carolina | 2,434 | 252 | 9,923 | 203 |
| North Dakota | 2,026 | 213 | 2,904 | 60 |
| Ohio | 7,619 | 791 | 24,606 | 504 |
| Oklahoma | 1,991 | 225 | 4,991 | 102 |
| Oregon | 2,026 | 220 | 7,747 | 159 |
| Pennsylvania | 7,056 | 718 | 32,481 | 666 |
| Rhode Island | 61 | 6 | 517 | 11 |
| South Carolina | 1,749 | 184 | 6,649 | 136 |
| South Dakota | 869 | 102 | 1,473 | 30 |
| Tennessee | 4,274 | 463 | 11,945 | 245 |
| Texas | 16,826 | 1,908 | 33,307 | 683 |
| Utah | 1,659 | 179 | 5,032 | 103 |
| Vermont | 172 | 14 | 744 | 15 |
| Virginia | 5,737 | 593 | 16,767 | 344 |
| Washington | 3,967 | 463 | 10,634 | 218 |
| West Virginia | 2,861 | 303 | 8,174 | 168 |
| Wisconsin | 3,128 | 358 | 9,118 | 187 |
| Wyoming | 2,822 | 323 | 3,114 | 64 |
| United States, total | 181,264 | 19,861 | 522,720 | 10,716 |
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, available at www.aar.org/StatisticsAndPublications as of July 2015.