Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,525
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$6,855
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,368
Connecticut costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Connecticut — 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
$39,380
Kept after tax
$32,525
Worth in national money
$31,368
State rank
35
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Connecticut. The middle earner gets $39,380. That is 35 of 50 states, and about 11.29% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 482 occupations Connecticut publishes, this job lands at 425. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $39,380, tax leaves $32,525 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $31,368 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $45,340, since top earners drag the number up.
- For reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, Connecticut sits in the lower band at $39,380, ranking 35 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 11.29%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Connecticut, this work ranks 425 of 482 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.
- After tax, $32,525 remains from the Connecticut median of $39,380 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $31,368 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $45,340 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 | $34,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,180 |
| This salary | $39,380 |
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 Connecticut | $32,525 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,822 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,437 |
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 | $37,766 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,157 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
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 Connecticut earn under $39,380 and half over. The published range runs $34,880 at the tenth percentile to $71,180 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $32,525 take-home in Connecticut comes from $39,380. 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 425 of 482.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,368 uses one figure for the whole of Connecticut. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 482 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 425.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,880 to $71,180; 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 $32,525, from $39,380, assumes a single Connecticut 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 425 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 35 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,368, worked from $39,380, 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 Connecticut address, on work sitting at 425 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $45,340, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,880, the highest tenth $71,180, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $31,368 of national purchasing power.
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 Connecticut adds its own income tax on top — which is why $32,525 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Connecticut is $45,340. 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 ($34,880) and the ninetieth ($71,180) 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?
Connecticut's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $31,368 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 $32,525 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Connecticut 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.