Pros Salary and benefits. Cons Mismanagement. Yes There are 3 helpful reviews 3 No. Great work pay and benefits. Hours and leadership is sometimes questionable. The pay is good but the rail road owns your time.
You are paid not for talent but for convenience. It is a good job and will always be there. Pros Fun. Cons Hours. Yes There are 2 helpful reviews 2 No. Metra is a okay job for benefits.
Metro is a okay job it's just I hardly get days off and I work overtime and don't get paid overtime they use the overtime pay as comp time and give you time off for your overtime. Yes There are 1 helpful reviews 1 No. Share your experience Let job seekers know what it's like to work at your company. Good place to work. Worked for Metra for 16 years. Conducted training for Railroad employees in six county area.
Various personalities. Worked with blue collar and white collar, multi-generational, multi-cultural, very diverse workforce. Loved working with people in general. Pros Great benefits. Cons Long distance to travel to work. Yes There are 9 helpful reviews 9 No. Pros good benefits.
Cons very smokey. Its an ok job, just feel like there could be more done. The benefits are great, no free lunches around here, we get very short breaks. Yes There are 2 helpful reviews 2 No There are 2 unhelpful reviews 2.
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Interesting work. Very Productive and Straight Forward workplace. Poor management. Electrician in Chicago, IL. Great place to work. See all reviews.
What would you say about your employer? Help fellow job seekers by sharing your unique experience. Write a review. What benefits does Metra offer? It makes up an increasing share of the railroad's overall budget. For union workers, total payroll costs rose 27 percent, with overtime alone rising 47 percent between and , according to figures obtained by the Tribune. The labor cost increases have come as the commuter rail service's board of directors has voted to increase fares every year between and Metra management, facing a budget deficit, has asked the board to approve another increase for next year, along with service cuts, to make up for a decline in state funding.
Metra officials cited several reasons for the increased payroll, including the need to hire more workers and pay overtime to maintain the railroad's aging equipment, and to replace non-union employees who left during a hiring and pay freeze from to The railroad also said it needed to raise salaries to attract and retain good managers and reduce costs associated with turnover.
At the same time, state officials have reduced the amount of capital funding and other aid they give to Metra, leaving it up to the railroad to bridge the gap. Many transit and labor experts say that nobody should be surprised at the higher labor costs, which they say are a side effect of underfunding infrastructure.
He said the pattern of salary and overtime increases sounded reasonable, given the chronic underinvestment in public transit systems around the country, including the Northeast, where disinvestment in New Jersey commuter rail lines, for example, has led to declines in service and public criticism. Ted Dabrowski, vice president of policy at the conservative Illinois Policy Institute, compared the fare hikes to the Cook County beverage tax and state income tax increases as another example of government agencies overspending and then asking the public to pay for it.
Next month, the Metra board will vote on proposed fare hikes ranging from 4. But he said Metra needed some kind of funding stream, like an increased gas tax, for capital improvements, which will bring down operating costs.
Faced with such bleak prospects for state funding in recent years, the agency decided in to raise fares annually for 10 years to help meet the costs of capital, though next year's proposed increase addresses the operating deficit.
Citing 'storm' of budget troubles, Metra and Pace propose fare hikes. For example, Metra officials point to the challenge, and cost, of maintaining an aging fleet of locomotives and railcars. In the absence of new equipment, the service is growing its program to fix up old locomotives and cars, some of which date to the Eisenhower administration. To save money, it said it is doing work itself, instead of sending it to an outside contractor.
But that requires hiring more workers, said Chief Mechanical Officer Jim Derwinski, who will replace Orseno as chief executive in January. Nobody is holding their breath for a new capital investment program, which has been delayed because of partisan bickering and appears unlikely before the November election. The last major bill was in Amid this budget squeeze, Metra's payroll has accounted for an increasing share of its overall spending, rising to Average pay for a non-union worker, measured by dividing total payments by headcount, rose by about 22 percent.
Average pay for union workers, which represent the majority of Metra employees, rose by almost 15 percent, a figure that includes overtime. In approving Orseno's most recent increase, Metra's board said he was underpaid compared to executives at other big city commuter railroads.
Other Metra senior-level jobs also saw higher salaries.
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