Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,040
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$7,900
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,330
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$44,940
Kept after tax
$37,040
Worth in national money
$38,330
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Vermont pays hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks a middle wage of $44,940, ranking 3 of 51 states and sitting about 28.14% above the national middle.
- Against 453 occupations Vermont publishes, hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks lands at 389. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $44,940 the take-home is $37,040; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $38,330 would nationally. The average lands at $42,110, below the middle of the range.
- Vermont's median for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks is $44,940, about 28.14% above the national figure and 3 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Vermont, this work ranks 389 of 453 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 hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in Vermont, on $44,940, is $37,040 — equivalent to $38,330 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 $42,110 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 | $35,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,960 |
| This salary | $44,940 |
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 Vermont | $37,040 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,289 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,073 |
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 | $43,385 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,297 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in Vermont earn under $44,940 and half over. The published range runs $35,300 at the tenth percentile to $47,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $37,040, worked from $44,940. 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 389 of 453.
- Two cautions on $38,330, the adjusted value of that $44,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 389 of 453 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in Vermont, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,300 to $47,960; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Vermont take-home of $37,040, on $44,940 for work ranking 389 of 453 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 389 of 453 in the state.
- This $38,330 adjusted figure, worked from $44,940, 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 389 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 389 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $42,110, 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 — $35,300 at the tenth percentile, $47,960 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 $38,330.
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 Vermont adds its own income tax on top — which is why $37,040 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.
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 Vermont is $42,110. 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 ($35,300 to $47,960) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $38,330 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 $37,040 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.