Aircraft Service Attendants in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,188
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$6,642
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,013
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$38,830
Kept after tax
$32,188
Worth in national money
$33,013
State rank
33
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for aircraft service attendants is on the low side in Pennsylvania. The middle earner gets $38,830. That is 33 of 46 states, and about 4% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 492 occupations Pennsylvania publishes, aircraft service attendants lands at 423. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $38,830, tax leaves $32,188, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $33,013 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $40,610, since top earners drag the number up.
- For aircraft service attendants, Pennsylvania sits in the lower band at $38,830, ranking 33 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 4%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Pennsylvania, this work ranks 423 of 492 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.
- Because Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for aircraft service attendants — median $38,830 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $32,188 retained, $33,013 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $40,610 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Aircraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,830 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,400 |
| This salary | $38,830 |
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 Pennsylvania | $32,188 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,380 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,337 |
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 | $37,346 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,617 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,830 as a midpoint for Pennsylvania, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,660 and the ninetieth is $47,400 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Pennsylvania the take-home figure of $32,188, from $38,830, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 423 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $33,013, the adjusted value of that $38,830 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Pennsylvania. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 423 of 492 locally.
- The Pennsylvania median of $38,830 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,660 to $47,400. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Pennsylvania is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $32,188 from $38,830. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 423 of 492 locally.
- This $33,013 adjusted figure, worked from $38,830, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 423 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 423 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $40,610, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,660 at the bottom tenth to $47,400 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $33,013.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Pennsylvania's own levy, $32,188 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Pennsylvania is $40,610. 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 ($33,660 to $47,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Pennsylvania rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Pennsylvania'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 $33,013 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 $32,188 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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.