Baggage Porters and Bellhops in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,312
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$7,928
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,592
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$42,240
Kept after tax
$34,312
Worth in national money
$31,592
State rank
2
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for baggage porters and bellhops is strong here. Hawaii's middle earner gets $42,240, putting the state 2 of 48 — about 13.92% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Hawaii this is lower-paid work. Of 437 occupations the state publishes figures for, baggage porters and bellhops ranks 393. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $42,240 the take-home is $34,312; in national-average money that behaves like $31,592. The average comes to $45,590, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For baggage porters and bellhops, Hawaii sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $42,240, ranking 2 of 48 and running about 13.92% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Against every occupation Hawaii reports, baggage porters and bellhops ranks 393 of 437, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for baggage porters and bellhops in Hawaii, on $42,240, is $34,312; deflated by the state's price level, $31,592. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $45,590 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Baggage Porters and Bellhops
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,460 |
| This salary | $42,240 |
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 Hawaii | $34,312 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,120 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,578 |
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 | $39,990 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,745 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Hawaii earn less than $42,240. The published range is $31,010 up to $57,460, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Hawaii's $34,312, worked from $42,240. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 393 of 437.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,592 uses one figure for the whole of Hawaii. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 437 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 393.
- Reported values are medians; for baggage porters and bellhops in Hawaii the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,010 to $57,460. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Hawaii take-home of $34,312, on $42,240 for work ranking 393 of 437 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 393 of 437 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,592, worked from $42,240, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Hawaii address, on work sitting at 393 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $45,590 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,010 at the tenth percentile, $57,460 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $31,592 rather than its face figure.
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 Hawaii's own levy, $34,312 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 Hawaii is $45,590. 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 ($31,010 to $57,460) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $31,592 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $34,312 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.