Transit and Railroad Police Career, Salary and Skills
Transit and Railroad Police have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $90,230 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 4,390. Wage data is published for 11 locations.
Occupation description
Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.
O*NET code
33-3052.00
Job zone
3
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$90,230
Hourly median
$43.38
Employment
4,390
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$57,690
10th
$68,990
25th
$90,230
Median
$119,290
75th
$125,910
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 3.25 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 3.88 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.88 | 3.38 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.75 | 3.00 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.38 | 3.25 |
| Monitoring | 3.38 | 3.50 |
| Writing | 3.25 | 3.00 |
| Active Learning | 3.25 | 3.00 |
| Coordination | 3.25 | 3.25 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.25 | 3.12 |
Typical tasks
- Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
- Monitor transit areas and conduct security checks to protect railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
- Apprehend or remove trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinate with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
- Direct security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
- Patrol railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities to protect company property or shipments and to maintain order.
- Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
- Examine credentials of unauthorized persons attempting to enter secured areas.
- Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.
Technology
- Crime mapping software
- Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS
- Law enforcement information databases
- MapInfo Professional
- MapInfo StreetPro
- Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database
- SmugMug Flickr
- Web browser software
Transit and Railroad Police salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in NJMedian $106,290 · Employment 340
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in GAMedian $57,690 · Employment 240
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in CAMedian $109,650 · Employment 100
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in MOMedian $67,840 · Employment 90
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in TXMedian $78,480 · Employment 80
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in UTMedian $87,770 · Employment 80
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in Philadelphia, PAMedian $103,980 · Employment 80
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in FLMedian $69,810 · Employment 40
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in New York, NYMedian $90,460 · Employment —
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in NYMedian $90,460 · Employment —
- Transit and Railroad Police Salary in MDMedian $99,420 · Employment —
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.