Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,593
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$6,347
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,783
Kansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kansas — 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
$34,940
Kept after tax
$28,593
Worth in national money
$31,783
State rank
48
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Kansas. The middle earner gets $34,940. That is 48 of 50 states, and about 21.29% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations Kansas publishes, this job lands at 446. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $34,940 you keep $28,593 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $31,783 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $39,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- For reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, Kansas sits in the lower band at $34,940, ranking 48 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 21.29%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Kansas, this work ranks 446 of 488 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.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $28,593 after the full tax stack, from $34,940. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,783 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $39,060 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 | $30,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,070 |
| This salary | $34,940 |
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 Kansas | $28,593 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,254 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$649 |
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 | $32,873 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$785 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
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 Kansas earn under $34,940 and half over. The published range runs $30,360 at the tenth percentile to $53,070 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 Kansas's $28,593, worked from $34,940. 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 446 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Kansas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $31,783, the adjusted value of that $34,940 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 446 of 488 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Kansas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,360 to $53,070; 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 Kansas take-home of $28,593, on $34,940 for work ranking 446 of 488 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 446 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Kansas, so $31,783 — the adjusted value of that $34,940 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 446 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $39,060, 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 — $30,360 at the tenth percentile, $53,070 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Kansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $31,783 in national terms.
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; Kansas then takes its own share, leaving $28,593.
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 Kansas is $39,060. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($30,360 to $53,070) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Kansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Kansas'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 $31,783 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 $28,593 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kansas 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.