Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,626
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$12,484
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,930
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
$59,110
Kept after tax
$46,626
Worth in national money
$42,930
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks is strong here. Hawaii's middle earner gets $59,110, putting the state 1 of 51 — about 68.55% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 249 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $59,110 the take-home is $46,626; in national-average money that behaves like $42,930. The average lands at $58,030, below the middle of the range.
- For hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, Hawaii sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $59,110, ranking 1 of 51 and running about 68.55% 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.
- Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ranks 249 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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.
- Take-home for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in Hawaii, on $59,110, is $46,626; deflated by the state's price level, $42,930. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $58,030 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,310 |
| This salary | $59,110 |
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 | $46,626 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,675 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,189 |
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 | $55,315 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,904 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,110 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,430 and the ninetieth is $69,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $46,626 take-home in Hawaii comes from $59,110. 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 249 of 437.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,930, the adjusted value of that $59,110 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 249 of 437 in the state.
- The Hawaii median of $59,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,430 to $69,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $46,626, from $59,110, assumes a single Hawaii 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 249 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $42,930 — the adjusted value of that $59,110 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 249 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $42,430 at the tenth percentile, $69,310 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 $42,930 rather than its face figure.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $46,626 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,430 to $69,310) 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 $42,930 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 $46,626 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.