Hoghead1 Wrote:
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> I've been shopping around for the last year or so.
> You can find shortline engineer jobs going
> anywhere from $14.00 to the mid $30.00 per hour
> range. Surprisingly, the higher paying ones
> weren't necessarily in the big cities, either.
> Benefits vary as well, such as this outfit in the
> Tri-Cities that doesn't offer any. The average
> seems to be in the low to mid 20's, examples of
> which were found all over the country.

You get what you pay for. Anyone making 14.00 will always be shopping around looking for better pay. Employees making mid thirties per hour will be more loyal and conscientious. I've always told workers with higher pay comes higher responsibility and accountability.