What salaries do London Underground staff get?published at 13:11 British Summer Time
By Anthony Reuben
If you’re in the UK capital today, then you’ll know almost all London Underground services have been shut down as staff strike over pay and conditions.
There have been various freedom of information requests made to Transport for London (TfL) recently about their staff’s current pay and conditions.
In November, external, TfL was asked, how much its Underground train drivers get paid and said: “The current fixed salary for a full-time Tube driver is £68,096.”
There was a separate request from June, external, asking about the pay of various grades of station staff.
The biggest group was CSA1 (Customer Service Assistant) of which there are 2,652, earning an average of £38,490 a year. The highest-paid group was CSMX (Customer Service Manager) of which there are 23, earning an average of £78,224 a year.
Permanent employees of TfL are able to join a final salary pension scheme. , external
Overtime may be paid at between basic rate and double the hourly rate depending on the grade of the employee and the day of the week, according to this request, external.
And we also know from that same request, external, that TfL staff get 30 days annual leave plus eight bank holidays per year.
