With a revenue increase of 13.63% in the third quarter 2026, year on year to cumulative value of $12,963 million, Norfolk Southern's revenue per employee grew on a trailing twelve months basis to $ 671,658, this marks a new company high.
Within the Transportation sector Employees of 13 other companies have achieved higher revenue per employee. While revenue/employee total ranking has improved so far to 1328, from total ranking in previous quarter at 1575. Norfolk Southern has 19,300 employees.

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NSC Revenue per Employee	(Sep 30 2026) III. Quarter	(Jun 30 2026) II. Quarter	(Mar 31 2026) I. Quarter	(Dec 31 2025) IV. Quarter	(Sep 30 2025) III. Quarter
Y / Y Revenue Change	13.63 %	11.41 %	0.17 %	-1.65 %	1.7 %
Sales per Employee (TTM) $	671,658	649,741	631,347	631,088	633,679
NSC's Total Ranking	# 1328	# 1575	# 1339	# 1327	# 1335
Seq. Revenue Change	1.76 %	15.58 %	0.81 %	-4.16 %	-0.23 %

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Revenue per Employee Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Railroads Industry	# 2
Transportation Sector	# 14
Overall Market	# 1328

Revenue per Employee Statistics
High	Average	Low
$ 671,658	$ 556,569	$ 412,902
(Sep 30 2026)		(Dec. 30, 2009)

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Norfolk Southern's Revenue MRQ	$ 3,526 Millions	Visit NSC's Income Statement
Norfolk Southern's Revenues TTM	$ 12,963 Millions	Visit NSC's aggregate revenue growth
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Companies with similar Revenue per Employee for 12 months ending Sep 30 2026, within Transportation Sector	Revenue per Employee	Revenue 12 months ending Sep 30 2026	Number of Employees Sep 30 2026
Union Pacific Corp	905,384.64	$ 26,516.000 Million	29,287
Delta Air Lines Inc	697,087.38	$ 71,800.000 Million	103,000
Norfolk Southern Corp	671,658.03	$ 12,963.000 Million	19,300
Csx Corporation	649,652.17	$ 14,942.000 Million	23,000
Frontier Group Holdings Inc	596,516.13	$ 4,623.000 Million	7,750
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd	592,589.01	$ 11,543.041 Million	19,479
United Airlines Holdings Inc	579,072.44	$ 65,551.000 Million	113,200
Polaris Inc	527,337.93	$ 7,646.400 Million	14,500
Jetblue Airways Corp	519,602.75	$ 9,993.000 Million	19,232
Southwest Airlines Co	433,369.97	$ 31,545.000 Million	72,790
Alaska Air Group Inc	425,718.34	$ 15,305.000 Million	35,951
J b Hunt Transport Services Inc	419,691.97	$ 13,325.220 Million	31,750
Republic Airways Holdings Inc	407,262.01	$ 2,417.100 Million	5,935
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation	394,000.00	$ 12,214.000 Million	31,000
Trinity Industries Inc	347,528.64	$ 2,123.400 Million	6,110

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