The top 15 highest paying cities for locomotive engineers (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of locomotive engineers in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $89,490, Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington is the highest paying city for locomotive engineers. It is followed by Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia (average annual salary $82,070). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of locomotive engineers in a specific city, use the links in the table.
| Rank | City/Area | Average Salary i | # of Empl. i |
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| 1 | Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington | $89,490 |
340 | |
| 2 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia | $82,070 |
440 | |
| 3 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington | $81,270 |
370 | |
| 4 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York | $77,040 |
60 | |
| 5 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia | $77,040 |
400 | |
| 6 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California | $66,130 |
30 | |
| 7 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington | $62,700 |
220 | |
| 8 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California | $59,290 |
220 | |
| 9 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California | $57,950 |
280 | |
| 10 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, California | $57,950 |
280 | |
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| 11 | Stockton, California | $56,070 |
40 | |
| 12 | North Arizona nonmetropolitan area, Arizona | $48,660 |
40 | |
| 13 | Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas | $47,050 |
n/a | |
| 14 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas | $40,750 |
60 | |
| 15 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California | $37,700 |
30 | |