Bureau of Railway Economics
Published: 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from Railway Trainmen's Earnings, 1916 Introductory. - Effective July 1, 1915, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued a set of rules governing the classification of steam-railway employees and their compensation. The returns made by railways to the Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, therefore, offer the first opportunity for tabulations based on a uniform classification of their employees. They also afford the opportunity to tabulate average number in service, aggregate compensation, and average annual and hourly earnings of railway employees. This bulletin presents statistics of this nature for the fiscal year 1916, covering the different classes of railway trainmen. It covers only the returns of roads of Class I - that is, those with annual operating revenues above $1,000,000. There were 178 of these roads in 1916, with an operated mileage of 231,245 miles. These roads handled more than 95 percent of the freight and passenger traffic of the railways in 1916, so that statistics covering the number and compensation of their trainmen may be regarded as representative of the general conditions under which railway trainmen work. Five tables follow, with accompanying text, which present statistics of number and compensation of railway trainmen in 1916. The remainder of the bulletin is devoted to definitions of the terms utilized in the bulletin; also a description of the classification of trainmen prescribed by the Commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.