Cargo and Freight Agents in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,499
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$9,881
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,915
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$51,380
Kept after tax
$41,499
Worth in national money
$42,915
State rank
22
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Georgia is 22 of 48 states for cargo and freight agents, with a middle wage of $51,380. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 262 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $51,380 you keep $41,499 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,915 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $53,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia ranks 22 of 48 for cargo and freight agents at $51,380. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Cargo and freight agents ranks 262 of 492 occupations in Georgia by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $41,499 after the full tax stack, from $51,380. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,915 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $53,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cargo and Freight Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,880 |
| This salary | $51,380 |
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 Georgia | $41,499 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,464 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,812 |
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 | $48,934 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,191 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Georgia earn less than $51,380. The published range is $31,440 up to $75,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $41,499 take-home in Georgia comes from $51,380. 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 262 of 492.
- Two cautions on $42,915, the adjusted value of that $51,380 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 262 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for cargo and freight agents in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,440 to $75,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $41,499, from $51,380, assumes a single Georgia 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 262 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 48 for it.
- This $42,915 adjusted figure, worked from $51,380, 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 262 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 262 of 492 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 $53,510 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $31,440, the highest tenth $75,880, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $42,915 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Georgia then takes its own share, leaving $41,499.
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 Georgia is $53,510. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($31,440) and the ninetieth ($75,880) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $42,915 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 $41,499 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.