Amtrak Hides Hefty Salaries Of Thousands Of Employees While It Hemorrhages Millions

“…Amtrac, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., is hiding the salaries of its employees while running a massive deficit year after year, according to data from Open The Books.

The rail company paid its 19,000 employees an average salary of $121,000 for fiscal year 2022, with the exact numbers being hidden by Amtrak through its use of an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The exemption permits the government to withhold information on personal privacy grounds, while top executives whose salaries were reported made between $504,000 and $780,000, according to Open The Books, citing payroll data acquired through FOIA requests.

Since its establishment in 1971, Amtrak has never turned a profit and predicts that it will continue to lose roughly $1 billion per year, leaving taxpayers to cover most of its losses, according to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure…”