Conrail Wages?

Anyone know what kind of salary a Conductor or similiar title with Conrail can produce in the New Jersey area?

And do they hire directly or is their recruiting outsourced to CSX or Norfolk Southern?

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I thought Conrail was sold many years ago???

Conrail Shared Assets operates much of the trackage in Northern NJ and trackage in the Detroit area. Maybe Philly, too? Not certain about that...

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anyone on Conrail conductor wages? I'm just not sure if they coincide with CSX and NS because they're obviously a smaller operation..

thanks

Forget it.. I just spoke with Conrail.. apparently a conductor or trainperson as they call it, starts off at 15.93 an hour which is 75% of their daily payrate. Conrail only guarantees 40 hours a week and since they are a shortline road, trainpersons do not travel. Even with overtime, which I'm not sure Conrail can even guarantee, their wages are just not competetitive against NS and CSX.

40 hours x 16.00 (rounded) = $690.00/week

I'm pretty sure CSX and NS pay more than $690.00 a week at 40 hours starting off and I bet both CSX and NS can offer conductors overtime at most yards. I may be speaking ignorantly here, but I don't know how many hours Conrail can offer past 40. Plus, being it's a smaller operation, I bet the extra board is heavily stalked. !

Yeehawz wrote:Conrail only guarantees 40 hours a week and since they are a shortline road,

You did not understand what 40 hr guarantee is! This means that even if you don't get called at all, you are guarantied 40 hrs of pay per week. I am pretty sure that there is plenty of overtime available for people who want it.
NS does not have guarantied extra boards for trainman, therefore you aren't guarantied even 40 hrs of pay.

im a conductor with conrail in detroit now. they have guaranteed boards and ur home every night. u cant beat it. theres overtime here in detroit if u want it im sure its the same in jersey. the management does not bother u as they do on ns or csx. as long as we get the job done and no one gets hurt everything is fine. full pay in detroit here is 23.50 or close to it for conductors full pay. im not sure about jersey

I think more railroads should go to the hourly wage agreement like we have on the CN (GTW boy here)

I know CSX's extraboard for post 85'ers is 75%...when I left is was around $1560 a half. Right now I make a weekly guarantee of $1475.. :/

Right now I make a weekly guarantee of $1475..

Where and how?

Those must be Canadian Rupees

powerpro69 wrote:

Right now I make a weekly guarantee of $1475..

Where and how?

CN Grand Trunk District

Brakey wrote:

powerpro69 wrote:

Right now I make a weekly guarantee of $1475..

Where and how?

CN Grand Trunk District

You make $1475 a week with Conrail? At what % daily pay? I don't see how that's possible even at 90%.

Yeehawz wrote:

Brakey wrote:

powerpro69 wrote:

Right now I make a weekly guarantee of $1475..

Where and how?

CN Grand Trunk District

You make $1475 a week with Conrail? At what % daily pay? I don't see how that's possible even at 90%.

CN is Canadian National. Funny how he twisted your conrail pay question into a CN pay brag.

but even so.. if those are canadian bucks.. the current exchange rate is what, $1.03(CDN) to $1.00(US). So you're still looking at around $1430 a week?