Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,258
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$11,962
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,238
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$60,220
Kept after tax
$48,258
Worth in national money
$51,238
State rank
1
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Michigan pays this job a middle wage of $60,220, ranking 1 of 50 states and sitting about 35.66% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Michigan, this sits in the middle: 232 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Michigan is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $60,220 the take-home is $48,258; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $51,238 would nationally. The average lands at $58,980, below the middle of the range.
- Michigan's median for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks is $60,220, about 35.66% above the national figure and 1 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.
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks ranks 232 of 493 occupations in Michigan by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Michigan, on $60,220, is $48,258 — equivalent to $51,238 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $58,980 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,600 |
| This salary | $60,220 |
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 Michigan | $48,258 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,567 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$799 |
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 | $57,347 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$966 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Michigan earn less than $60,220. The published range is $33,640 up to $79,600, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,258 take-home in Michigan comes from $60,220. 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 232 of 493.
- Two cautions on $51,238, the adjusted value of that $60,220 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Michigan. 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 232 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Michigan the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,640 to $79,600. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,258, from $60,220, assumes a single Michigan 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 232 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 50 for it.
- This $51,238 adjusted figure, worked from $60,220, 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 232 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 232 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $33,640, the highest tenth $79,600, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Michigan is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $51,238 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Michigan's own levy, $48,258 remains.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($33,640) and the ninetieth ($79,600) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan'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 $51,238 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 $48,258 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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.