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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Head Switcher Salary
in Fort Salonga, New York
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$43,483 (USD)
Average Salary
$21/hr
Average Hourly
$578
Average Bonus
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Last updated: October 31, 2024
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The average pay for a Head Switcher is $43,483 a year and $21 an hour in Fort Salonga, New York, United States. The average salary range for a Head Switcher is between $32,873 and $50,788. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Fort Salonga, New York.
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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Estimated salary in 2029:
$48,843
5 Year Change:
12 %
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About Fort Salonga, New York
Fort Salonga Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Fort Salonga is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Towns of Huntington and Smithtown in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 10,008 at the 2010 census.
The hamlet is considered the easternmost part of the historic Gold Coast of Long Island, with the Geissler Estate being located within the hamlet.
Job Summary
Description:
- Supervises and coordinates activities of switch-engine crew engaged in switching railroad cars within yard of railroad, industrial plant, or similar location to facilitate loading and unloading of cars or making up and breaking up of trains: notifies yard engineer of switching orders and, whereby, which cars are to be moved to specified locations of yard, using radio, telephone, verbal, or hand signals.
- Gives instructions to switch tender to throw track switches and to yard coupler to couple and uncouple cars.
- May keep records, number, origin, destination, and cargo of cars switched.
- May coordinate activities of switching crew from locomotive cab, caboose, or control tower.
- May assist workers to couple and uncouple cars, throw track switches, or other activities involved in switching railroad cars, as necessary.
- May supervise workers engaged in maintenance and repair of diesel locomotives and be designated locomotive-engine supervisor.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Head Switcher is $43,483 a year and $21 an hour in Fort Salonga, New York, United States. The average salary range for a Head Switcher is between $32,873 and $50,788. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Fort Salonga, New York.
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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About Fort Salonga, New York
Fort Salonga Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Fort Salonga is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Towns of Huntington and Smithtown in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 10,008 at the 2010 census.
The hamlet is considered the easternmost part of the historic Gold Coast of Long Island, with the Geissler Estate being located within the hamlet.
Job Summary
Description:
- Supervises and coordinates activities of switch-engine crew engaged in switching railroad cars within yard of railroad, industrial plant, or similar location to facilitate loading and unloading of cars or making up and breaking up of trains: notifies yard engineer of switching orders and, whereby, which cars are to be moved to specified locations of yard, using radio, telephone, verbal, or hand signals.
- Gives instructions to switch tender to throw track switches and to yard coupler to couple and uncouple cars.
- May keep records, number, origin, destination, and cargo of cars switched.
- May coordinate activities of switching crew from locomotive cab, caboose, or control tower.
- May assist workers to couple and uncouple cars, throw track switches, or other activities involved in switching railroad cars, as necessary.
- May supervise workers engaged in maintenance and repair of diesel locomotives and be designated locomotive-engine supervisor.
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ERI Economic Research Institute compiles the best salary, cost-of-living, and executive compensation survey data available.
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