Amtrak Employee Reviews about "pay and benefits"

Pros

good pay and benefits also family oriented

Cons

everything is fine as i can see

Pros

Great communication with employees, strong HR department, great pay and benefits, nice people

Cons

Left during the pandemic when things were understandably a mess. The company is so big it’s hard to find your footing at first for entry level employees.

Pros

Good pay and benefits good job

Cons

Left to be closer to home

Pros

Good pay and benefits with vacation

Cons

365/24 work days a year

Pros

Pay and benefits such as the unlimited rail pass

Cons

IT infrastructure needs serious improvement

Pros

Great pay, benefits and work schedule

Cons

Hours include nights and weekends

Pros

Excellent pay and benefits. Opportunities for advancement within the company are readily available. Exciting and fast paced work environment. Very rewarding experience especially if you enjoy working with the public and helping people. Coworkers are for the most part great, and you really feel like you're part of a team. Great comradeship.

Cons

Long hours, and depending on the job, lots of travel. Very hard to have a life outside of work. Can be very stressful. Also, a lot of jobs are on a "on call" basis meaning you don't have a regular schedule. Can be required to report for duty in as little as two hours from being called. Company is very top heavy management wise. Sometimes it seems like you have more "supervisors" than coworkers. Can be frustrating because a lot of the managers are poorly trained, and don't have any actual experience in the areas that they are managing.

Pros

Pay and benefits are above industry standard for a high school educated position. Pass probation and you've got a job pretty much forever, should you want it, or them you. Retirement is good, but you pay into it with a higher payroll tax than non railroad employment.

Cons

Ambition is not a requirement to succeed there. As long as you just do the little you are required to do, and don't try to do more than anybody else to prove yourself, you'll be fine and not be seen as a nonconformer (and suffer from that). Don't "rock the boat" (train) with innovative suggestions that might require change from the status "stagnant" quo. Management makes very little effort to appreciate a subordinates work, and is not interested in anything but the status quo...even though officially the company has never operated at a profit level. Why should it, its taxpayer subsidized.

Pros

Good pay /benefits, and travel

Cons

Teamwork needs improving, and team events to build chemistry

Pros

PAY, BENEFITS, Connections, travel, pay

Cons

Stuck in there ways, allow people to stay in positions too long that bring no new ideas or practices to the table, 50/50 job security