Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,760
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$5,510
16.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,554
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$33,270
Kept after tax
$27,760
Worth in national money
$27,554
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Virginia pays hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks around $33,270 at the midpoint, 32 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 489 occupations Virginia publishes, hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks lands at 475. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $33,270, tax leaves $27,760, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $27,554 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $33,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- For hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks the Virginia median is $33,270, ranking 32 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Virginia, this work ranks 475 of 489 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.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks — median $33,270 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $27,760 retained, $27,554 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $33,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,470 |
| This salary | $33,270 |
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 Virginia | $27,760 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,912 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,199 |
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 | $31,836 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,660 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $33,270 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,550 and the ninetieth is $38,470 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $27,760 take-home in Virginia comes from $33,270. 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 475 of 489.
- Two cautions on $27,554, the adjusted value of that $33,270 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 475 of 489 locally.
- The Virginia median of $33,270 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,550 to $38,470. 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 $27,760, from $33,270, assumes a single Virginia 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 475 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 51 for it.
- This $27,554 adjusted figure, worked from $33,270, 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 475 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 475 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $28,550 at the bottom tenth to $38,470 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $27,554 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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $27,760 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 ($28,550 to $38,470) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $27,554 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 $27,760 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.