# Rail Transportation Workers

> SOC minor group 53-4000 within Transportation and Material Moving Occupations — 6 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 53-4000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/rail-transportation-workers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 101,180.
- **Median wage:** $69,780.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 1.2%.
- **Annual openings:** 7.6.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 30th percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4031-00) — $74,080; 0th percentile overlap
- Locomotive Engineers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4011-00) — $77,400; 0th percentile overlap
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4022-00) — $65,480; 0th percentile overlap
- Subway and Streetcar Operators (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4041-00) — $84,830; 0th percentile overlap
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4013-00) — $58,030; 0th percentile overlap
- Rail Transportation Workers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-4099-00) — $49,330

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/rail-transportation-workers_