Thank you for the Rattler story of August 2 advising 28,136 passengers rode on the trains in the 2023-2024 financial year.
The most recent publicly available figures for Rattler wages and salaries is $1,993,702 for the 2022-2023 financial year.
(Wages costs in 2022-2023 were $1,527,652 added to that are Key Management Personnel costs of $466,050.)
Assuming employee costs have not gone down, it costs at least $70.85 in employee costs for each passenger.
An adult steam train ticket is now $69. While VIP tickets are $159, the majority travel for $69 or less.
Frank Lightfoot,
Gympie.
