Aircraft Service Attendants in Iowa
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,013
after federal, FICA and Iowa tax
Tax takes
$5,547
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,811
Iowa costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Iowa — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$35,560
Kept after tax
$30,013
Worth in national money
$33,811
State rank
45
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for aircraft service attendants is on the low side in Iowa. The middle earner gets $35,560. That is 45 of 46 states, and about 12.09% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Iowa publishes, aircraft service attendants lands at 456. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Iowa is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $35,560 the take-home is $30,013; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $33,811 would nationally. The average comes to $37,470, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For aircraft service attendants, Iowa sits in the lower band at $35,560, ranking 45 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 12.09%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Iowa, this work ranks 456 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for aircraft service attendants in Iowa, on $35,560, is $30,013 — equivalent to $33,811 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $37,470 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Aircraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,510 |
| This salary | $35,560 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Iowa | $30,013 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,752 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,164 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $34,640 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,618 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $35,560 as a midpoint for Iowa, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,140 and the ninetieth is $45,510 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $30,013 take-home in Iowa comes from $35,560. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 456 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Iowa, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $33,811, the adjusted value of that $35,560 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 456 of 493 in the state.
- The Iowa median of $35,560 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,140 to $45,510. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $30,013, from $35,560, assumes a single Iowa filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 456 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 45 of 46 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Iowa, so $33,811 — the adjusted value of that $35,560 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 456 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $37,470, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,140 at the tenth percentile, $45,510 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Iowa sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $33,811 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Iowa adds its own income tax on top — which is why $30,013 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Iowa is $37,470. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,140 to $45,510) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Iowa rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Iowa's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $33,811 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $30,013 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Iowa income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.