What is the pay salary for a BNSF railroad enginner?

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What is the pay salary for a BNSF railroad enginner?

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It all depends on where you work, what job you work, and what contract agreement you work under.  There's locals, yard jobs, road jobs, extra board, hostlers.  Just a ball park figure.......yard job is going to be around $55k/year.  Local around $72k/year, extra board about the same and road jobs the same up to around $150k for high mileage runs.  There is NOT a set salary and it varies widely across the system because we have so many different agreements.  One depot may have a run that is only 120 miles long that pays around $225-250 a trip there and the same back...so about $500 for a round trip.  Another run may be 360 miles and pay $500 up and $500 back.  The above pay is just an estimate on what the "starting" pay would roughly be.  We're paid by the trips we make, not by the hour.  If we make it those 120 miles in 2 hours.....we still get the same if it took 8 hours.  After 8 hours is overtime but that varies system wide as well as to when it starts....some places are 9 hours........it's a complicated system but the numbers above are pretty close.  Good luck