Baggage Porters and Bellhops in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$23,800
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$4,110
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$25,818
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$27,910
Kept after tax
$23,800
Worth in national money
$25,818
State rank
39
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for baggage porters and bellhops is on the low side in Indiana. The middle earner gets $27,910. That is 39 of 48 states, and about 24.73% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Indiana publishes, baggage porters and bellhops lands at 486. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Indiana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $27,910 the take-home is $23,800; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $25,818 would nationally. The average comes to $29,890, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For baggage porters and bellhops, Indiana sits in the lower band at $27,910, ranking 39 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 24.73%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Indiana, this work ranks 486 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 baggage porters and bellhops in Indiana, on $27,910, is $23,800 — equivalent to $25,818 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 $29,890 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 | $25,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $27,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $37,430 |
| This salary | $27,910 |
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 Indiana | $23,800 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $24,594 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$509 |
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 | $26,946 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$601 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Indiana earn less than $27,910. The published range is $25,180 up to $37,430, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $23,800 take-home in Indiana comes from $27,910. 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 486 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Indiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $25,818, the adjusted value of that $27,910 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 486 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for baggage porters and bellhops in Indiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $25,180 to $37,430. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $23,800, from $27,910, assumes a single Indiana 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 486 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Indiana, so $25,818 — the adjusted value of that $27,910 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 486 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $29,890, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $25,180 at the tenth percentile, $37,430 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Indiana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $25,818 in national terms.
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 Indiana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $23,800 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Indiana is $29,890. 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 ($25,180 to $37,430) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Indiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana'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 $25,818 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 $23,800 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.