NJ Transit Engineers Contract Will Hike Pay to Over $50 Per Hour
Commuters board a New Jersey Transit train at Penn Station in New York on May 5.
Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergNew Jersey Transit’s newly inked deal with its locomotive engineers would boost pay to more than $50 an hour, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
The starting hourly wage for NJ Transit engineers has been about $39.78 an hour, their union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said previously. The hike would bring the wages more in line with those at Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. The union had been seeking parity with those neighboring agencies.