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Last updated: November 10, 2024
Firer Diesel Locomotive Salary
in Skagway, Alaska
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$90,383 (USD)
Average Salary
$43/hr
Average Hourly
$1,952
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Firer Diesel Locomotive is $90,383 a year and $43 an hour in Skagway, Alaska, United States. The average salary range for a Firer Diesel Locomotive is between $63,720 and $109,634. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Skagway, Alaska.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
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5 Year Change:
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About Skagway, Alaska
Skagway Cost of Living Score:
Description:
The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with the large number of summer tourists each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city (urban Skagway located at 59°27′30″N 135°18′50″W) in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (now the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska). The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.
Skagway, on the Taiya Inlet, was an important saltwater...
Job Summary
Description:
- Monitors locomotive instruments and watches for dragging equipment, obstacles on right-of-way, and train signals during run: inventories supplies, such as fuel, water, and sand, to ensure safe, efficient operation during run.
- Inspects locomotive to detect damaged or worn parts.
- Observes oil, temperature, and pressure gauges on dashboard to ascertain if engine is operating safely and efficiently.
- Observes track from left side of locomotive to detect obstructions on tracks.
- Observes train signals along route and verifies their meaning for locomotive engineer.
- Observes train as it goes around curves to detect dragging equipment and smoking journal boxes.
- Observes signals from workers in rear of train and relays information to locomotive engineer.
- Signals yard coupler to set handbrakes on cars and to throw track switches when switching cars from train at way stations.
- Operates locomotive during emergency.
- May start diesel engine to warm engine before run.
- May be designated according to kind of locomotive as firer, diesel locomotive; firer, electric locomotive; or according to type of traffic as road-freight firer; road-passenger firer.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Firer Diesel Locomotive is $90,383 a year and $43 an hour in Skagway, Alaska, United States. The average salary range for a Firer Diesel Locomotive is between $63,720 and $109,634. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Skagway, Alaska.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
Find actuarial salary survey data and benchmark salary and pay.
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Firer Diesel Locomotive Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
Job family population: 13,610
Estimated population of Firer Diesel Locomotive jobs: 12,976
Rate of error: 0.9%
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About Skagway, Alaska
Skagway Cost of Living Score:
Description:
The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with the large number of summer tourists each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city (urban Skagway located at 59°27′30″N 135°18′50″W) in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (now the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska). The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.
Skagway, on the Taiya Inlet, was an important saltwater...
Job Summary
Description:
- Monitors locomotive instruments and watches for dragging equipment, obstacles on right-of-way, and train signals during run: inventories supplies, such as fuel, water, and sand, to ensure safe, efficient operation during run.
- Inspects locomotive to detect damaged or worn parts.
- Observes oil, temperature, and pressure gauges on dashboard to ascertain if engine is operating safely and efficiently.
- Observes track from left side of locomotive to detect obstructions on tracks.
- Observes train signals along route and verifies their meaning for locomotive engineer.
- Observes train as it goes around curves to detect dragging equipment and smoking journal boxes.
- Observes signals from workers in rear of train and relays information to locomotive engineer.
- Signals yard coupler to set handbrakes on cars and to throw track switches when switching cars from train at way stations.
- Operates locomotive during emergency.
- May start diesel engine to warm engine before run.
- May be designated according to kind of locomotive as firer, diesel locomotive; firer, electric locomotive; or according to type of traffic as road-freight firer; road-passenger firer.
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