Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,037
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$6,833
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,378
Alaska costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alaska — 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
$45,870
Kept after tax
$39,037
Worth in national money
$38,378
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $45,870, putting the state 11 of 50 — about 3.33% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 362. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $45,870 the take-home is $39,037, which is worth about $38,378 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $52,060, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $45,870, ranking 11 of 50 and running about 3.33% 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.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks ranks 362 of 430, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks on its $45,870 median: $39,037 retained after tax becomes $38,378 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $52,060 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,200 |
| This salary | $45,870 |
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 Alaska | $39,037 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,037 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,793 |
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 | $45,870 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,169 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
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 reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Alaska earn under $45,870 and half over. The published range runs $38,310 at the tenth percentile to $79,200 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,037 take-home in Alaska comes from $45,870. 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 362 of 430.
- Two cautions on $38,378, the adjusted value of that $45,870 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alaska. 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 362 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,310 to $79,200; 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.
- Retained pay of $39,037, from $45,870, assumes a single Alaska 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 362 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 50 for it.
- This $38,378 adjusted figure, worked from $45,870, 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 362 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 362 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $52,060, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,310 and the top tenth $79,200 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Alaska costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $38,378 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $39,037 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Alaska is $52,060. 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 ($38,310) and the ninetieth ($79,200) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Alaska's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $38,378 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Alaska levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $39,037 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.