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1/27/2022
U.S. Class Is employed 114,499 people in mid-December 2021, a 0.48% increase compared with mid-November’s employment level, but down 2.78% compared with the same month in 2020, according to Surface Transportation Board (STB) data.
Five of six workforce categories registered employment increases last month versus November 2021. They were: transportation (train and engine) employees, which rose 1.35% to 47,611 workers; transportation (other than train and engine), up 0.75% to 4,684; maintenance of equipment and stores, up 0.64% to 17,341; professional and administrative, up 0.53% to 9,809; and executives, officials and staff assistants, up 0.03% to 7,283.
One workforce category logged a month-over-month employment decrease: Maintenance of way and structures declined 1.03% to 27,771 workers.
Year over year, all but one category registered employment decreases. They were: maintenance of equipment and stores, down 6.88%; professional and administrative, down 4.05%; transportation (train and engine), down 2.97%; transportation (other than train and engine), down 2.88%; and executives, officials and staff assistants, down 0.4%.
Maintenance of way and structures registered a year-over-year increase in mid-December 2021 at 0.18%.