Baggage Porters and Bellhops in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$25,968
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$4,962
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,572
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$30,930
Kept after tax
$25,968
Worth in national money
$27,572
State rank
31
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Michigan is 31 of 48 states for baggage porters and bellhops, with a middle wage of $30,930. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Michigan this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, baggage porters and bellhops ranks 482. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $30,930 you keep $25,968 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $27,572 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $32,450, since top earners drag the number up.
- Michigan ranks 31 of 48 for baggage porters and bellhops at $30,930. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Michigan reports, baggage porters and bellhops ranks 482 of 493, 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.
- Retained pay in Michigan is $25,968 after the full tax stack, from $30,930. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $27,572 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $32,450 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Baggage Porters and Bellhops
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $39,200 |
| This salary | $30,930 |
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 Michigan | $25,968 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $27,032 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$246 |
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 | $29,606 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$298 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Michigan earn less than $30,930. The published range is $25,960 up to $39,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $25,968 take-home in Michigan comes from $30,930. 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 482 of 493.
- Two cautions on $27,572, the adjusted value of that $30,930 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Michigan. 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 482 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for baggage porters and bellhops in Michigan the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $25,960 to $39,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $25,968, from $30,930, assumes a single Michigan 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 482 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 31 of 48 for it.
- This $27,572 adjusted figure, worked from $30,930, 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 482 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 482 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 $32,450, 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 — $25,960 at the tenth percentile, $39,200 at the ninetieth.
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 $27,572.
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 Michigan's own levy, $25,968 remains.
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 Michigan is $32,450. 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 ($25,960 to $39,200) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Michigan rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan'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 $27,572 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 $25,968 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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.