INTRODUCTION

The tables in this volume include data on the railroad retirement and railroad unemployment 

insurance programs for fiscal year 2020 (October 2019-September 2020), calendar year 2019, 

unemployment and sickness benefit year 2019-2020 (July 2019-June 2020), and, in some tables, 

for earlier years.

The tables are presented in four sections: (A) financial statistics, (B) retirement and survivor 

benefits, (C) unemployment and sickness benefits, and (D) employment and compensation. Each 

section is introduced by a summary of the subject matter, including definitions of the major terms 

used in the tables and limitations of the data presented in the tables. 
*This table is no longer available as of Fiscal Year 2019.

FINANCIAL STATISTICS

A1. Beneficiaries and benefits paid under the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, by fiscal year,

2011-2020, cash basis

A2. Status of the Railroad Retirement Act accounts and trust funds, by fiscal year, 2011-2020, cash basis

A3. Status of the financial interchange between the Railroad Retirement Accounts and the Old-Age and Survivors, Disability, and 

Hospital Insurance Trust Funds, by fiscal year, 2011-2020, cash basis

A4. Status of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account, by fiscal year, cash basis* 

A5. Status of the RUIA Administration Fund, by fiscal year, cash basis*

A6. Retirement, survivor, unemployment and sickness benefit payments, by class of benefit and state of residence of beneficiary, fiscal 

year 2020, cash basis

RETIREMENT AND SURVIVOR BENEFITS 

B1. Number and average amount of retirement and survivor annuities in current-payment status at end of year, by type of annuitant 

and fiscal year, 2011-2020

B2. Number and average amount of retirement and survivor annuities awarded during year, by type of annuitant and fiscal year, 

2011-2020

B3. Retirement and survivor benefits paid, by type of benefit and fiscal year, 2011-2020, cash basis

B4. Lump-sum death benefits and residual payments awarded, by status of employee at death and fiscal year, 2011-2020

B5. Number and average amount of retirement and survivor annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, by type of 

annuity and status of annuitant under Social Security Act

B6. Regular employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type and amount

B7. Tier I and tier II components of employee annuities in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, and awarded in calendar 

year 2019, by amount
B8. Vested dual RR-SS benefit and supplemental components of employee annuities in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, 

and awarded in calendar year 2019, by amount

B9. Employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type and component

B10. Regular employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type of annuity 

and age of annuitant

B11. Regular employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type of annuity 

and years of creditable service

B12. Employee annuities in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, and awarded in calendar year 2019, by last railroad employer

B13. Supplemental employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type, 

supplemental amount, and combined amount

B14. Supplemental employee annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by age of 

annuitant

B15. Number and average amount of retired-employee family benefits in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, by type of 

employee annuity, family composition, and basis of computation

B16. Retired-employee family benefits in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, by family composition and amount

B17. Spouse and divorced spouse annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type 

and amount

B18. Components of spouse and divorced spouse annuities in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, and awarded in calendar 

year 2019, by amount

B19. Spouse and divorced spouse annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type 

and component

B20. Spouse and divorced spouse annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type 

of annuity and age of annuitant

B21. Survivor annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type of beneficiary and 

amount
B22. Components of survivor annuities in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, and awarded in calendar year 2019, by type 

of beneficiary and amount

B23. Survivor annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type of beneficiary and 

component

B24. Survivor annuities in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, and awarded in fiscal year 2020, by type and age of annuitant

B25. Survivor family benefits in current-payment status on December 31, 2019, by family composition and amount

B26. Lump-sum death benefits and residual payments awarded in fiscal year 2020, by status of employee at death and amount

B27. Retirement and survivor benefits in current-payment status on September 30, 2020, by class and state (Figure B27 -- Number of 

RR Act Beneficiaries in Current-Payment Status by State on September 30, 2020)

UNEMPLOYMENT AND SICKNESS BENEFITS 

C1. Principal administrative data for the unemployment and sickness benefit programs, benefit years 2015-2016 through 2019-2020, 

cash basis (Figure C1 -- Gross benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, benefit years 2015-2016 through 2019-

2020, cash basis) 

C2. Unemployment and sickness beneficiaries, benefit averages, and related data, by benefit year, 1990-1991 through 2019-2020

C3. Unemployment and sickness beneficiaries in benefit year 2019-2020 and selected data, by completed years of service

C4. Unemployment and sickness beneficiaries, and total gross benefits for the year, by state, benefit year 2019-2020

C5. Beneficiaries and selected averages for benefit year 2019-2020 unemployment, by age and sex

C6. Beneficiaries and selected averages for benefit year 2019-2020 sickness, by age and sex

C7. Beneficiaries and average compensable days for benefit year 2019-2020 sickness, by type of sickness

C8. Unemployment and sickness beneficiaries by month for benefit year 2019-2020

C9. Experience rating distribution, 2020
EMPLOYMENT AND COMPENSATION 

D1. Number of employees and their compensation, for all employers and class 1 railroads, 1937-2019

D2. Employees, by employment status, 1990-2019

D3. Employees and averages of months of service and creditable compensation, for all types of employer and for class 1 railroads, 

2010-2019

D4. All employees and employees age 60 or older, by completed years of service, 2010-2019

D5. Employees in 2019 and selected service and compensation data, by type of employer

D6. All employees, new entrants, employees qualified for RUIA benefits, and related data, by employer, 2019

D7. Employees in 2019, by type of employer and amount of creditable compensation

D8. Employees in 2019, by type of employer and months of service

D9. Employees in 2019, by amount of creditable compensation and by sex or completed years of service

D10. Employees in 2019, by amount of creditable compensation or sex and by age

D11. Employees in 2019, by age or sex and by completed years of service

D12. Employees in 2019, by sex and completed years of service

D13. All employees, new entrants, employees qualified for RUIA benefits, and related data, by state, 2019

D14. Employers in 2019, by number of employees

D15. Number of employers in 2019, by type of employer