Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,168
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$7,542
16.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,751
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$45,710
Kept after tax
$38,168
Worth in national money
$37,751
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Arizona pays this job a middle wage of $45,710, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 2.97% above the national middle.
- Against 491 occupations Arizona publishes, this job lands at 376. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $45,710, tax leaves $38,168, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $37,751 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $51,380, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arizona's median for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks is $45,710, about 2.97% above the national figure and 13 of 50 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 Arizona, this work ranks 376 of 491 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 Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks — median $45,710 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $38,168 retained, $37,751 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $51,380 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,980 |
| This salary | $45,710 |
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 Arizona | $38,168 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,908 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,289 |
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 | $44,789 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,768 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 Arizona earn under $45,710 and half over. The published range runs $34,740 at the tenth percentile to $77,980 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $38,168 take-home in Arizona comes from $45,710. 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 376 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $37,751 uses one figure for the whole of Arizona. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 376.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Arizona, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,740 to $77,980; 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 $38,168, from $45,710, assumes a single Arizona 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 376 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $37,751, worked from $45,710, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Arizona address, on work sitting at 376 of 491 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 $51,380 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 $34,740, the highest tenth $77,980, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Arizona run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $37,751 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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; Arizona then takes its own share, leaving $38,168.
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 Arizona is $51,380. 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 ($34,740) and the ninetieth ($77,980) 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?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $37,751 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 $38,168 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.