DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

47-4061 Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators

Occupational Description:
Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and railroad bed tamping machine operators.

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020
 Percentiles
GeographyEmploymentEmp SE*MeanMean SE*10th25thMedian75th90th
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN N/A10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Minnesota 30070$26.26/hr$0.55/hr$20.37/hr$23.59/hr$26.79/hr$29.39/hr$30.94/hr
U S 16,1801,311$27.88/hr$1.12/hr$16.96/hr$21.24/hr$27.37/hr$34.59/hr$39.70/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.


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OESProjections
EmploymentMedian Wage% Change 2022 - 2032
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators4,850$35.96/hr9.2%
Highway Maintenance Workers1,670$26.72/hr9.4%
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators330$30.07/hr10.0%
Pile-Driver Operators60$34.63/hr13.5%
Logging Equipment OperatorsN/A$28.83/hrN/A
Tasks for Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators