Baggage Porters and Bellhops in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$24,774
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$3,426
12.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,983
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$28,200
Kept after tax
$24,774
Worth in national money
$26,983
State rank
38
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for baggage porters and bellhops is on the low side in Ohio. The middle earner gets $28,200. That is 38 of 48 states, and about 23.95% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 494 occupations Ohio publishes, baggage porters and bellhops lands at 489. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Ohio does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $28,200 you keep $24,774, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $26,983 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $29,810, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For baggage porters and bellhops, Ohio sits in the lower band at $28,200, ranking 38 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 23.95%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Ohio, this work ranks 489 of 494 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.
- After federal, FICA and Ohio income tax, retained pay for baggage porters and bellhops on $28,200 is $24,774. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $26,983 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $29,810 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Baggage Porters and Bellhops
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $28,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,450 |
| This salary | $28,200 |
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 Ohio | $24,774 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $24,833 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,428 |
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 | $28,128 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,720 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $28,200 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $24,920 and the ninetieth is $38,450 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Ohio's $24,774, worked from $28,200. 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 489 of 494.
- Two cautions on $26,983, the adjusted value of that $28,200 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 489 of 494 locally.
- The Ohio median of $28,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $24,920 to $38,450. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Ohio take-home of $24,774, on $28,200 for work ranking 489 of 494 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 489 of 494 in the state.
- This $26,983 adjusted figure, worked from $28,200, 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 489 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 489 of 494 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 $29,810 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 — $24,920 at the tenth percentile, $38,450 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Ohio is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $26,983 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 Ohio adds its own income tax on top — which is why $24,774 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Ohio is $29,810. 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 ($24,920 to $38,450) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio'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 $26,983 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 $24,774 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.