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Track Liner Operator
$64,343 (USD)/yr
$30.93 (USD)/hr
$1,319 (USD)/yr
The average track liner operator gross salary in Houston, Texas is $64,343 or an equivalent hourly rate of $31. This is 0% lower (-$226) than the average track liner operator salary in the United States. In addition, they earn an average bonus of $1,319. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Houston, Texas. An entry level track liner operator (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $46,802. On the other end, a senior level track liner operator (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $78,942.
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Salary Potential
$72,275 (USD)
12 %
Based on our compensation data, the estimated salary potential for Track Liner Operator will increase 12 % over 5 years.
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The cost of living in Houston, Texas is 4% more than the average cost of living in the United States. Cost of living is calculated based on accumulating the cost of food, transportation, health services, rent, utilities, taxes, and miscellaneous.
View Cost of Living PageHouston ( ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. With a population of 2,302,878 in 2022, Houston is the...
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Job Description
Operates one or more machines mounted on flat-bed railroad trucks to spread, shape, and tamp ballast; raise, level, and align track; and prepare track foundation of crushed stone according to specifications: moves levers and brake pedal to guide machine into position. Adjusts controls to activate jacks, tampers, and scraper blades. Strings wire guidelines through leveling or aligning fixture. Attaches line... to rails or trailer extensions (buggies) coupled to machine to set up equipment. Turns wheels to adjust guidelines for track alignments and grades, following specifications. Observes indicator arms to verify level and alignment of track. When concerned with jack-tamping machine, may be designated jack-tamp operator. May control track-lining machine and be designated track-liner operator. May operate machines that lay ties and lay rails to construct, repair, or maintain track track-moving-machine operator (construction; mine & quarry).
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