Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,124
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$5,877
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,217
Nevada costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nevada — 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
$41,000
Kept after tax
$35,124
Worth in national money
$36,217
State rank
27
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nevada sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $41,000, ranking 27 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Measured against other jobs in Nevada, this one sits low: 389 of 485 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $41,000 you keep $35,124 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,217 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,050, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada occupies the middle band for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks: a median of $41,000, ranking 27 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks occupies position 389 of 485 in Nevada's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $35,124 after the full tax stack, from $41,000. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,217 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,050 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 | $34,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,440 |
| This salary | $41,000 |
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 Nevada | $35,124 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,124 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$73 |
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 | $41,000 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$88 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 Nevada earn under $41,000 and half over. The published range runs $34,770 at the tenth percentile to $66,440 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $35,124 take-home in Nevada comes from $41,000. 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 389 of 485.
- Two cautions on $36,217, the adjusted value of that $41,000 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nevada. 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 389 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,770 to $66,440; 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 $35,124, from $41,000, assumes a single Nevada 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 389 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 50 for it.
- This $36,217 adjusted figure, worked from $41,000, 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 389 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 389 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $47,050, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $34,770 at the bottom tenth to $66,440 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nevada is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $36,217 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $35,124 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 Nevada is $47,050. 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 ($34,770) and the ninetieth ($66,440) 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?
Nevada'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 $36,217 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Nevada levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $35,124 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.