Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,700
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$6,080
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,032
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the bottom tenth percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$38,780
Kept after tax
$32,700
Worth in national money
$30,032
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Jersey pays this job a middle wage of $38,780, 36 of 50 states and about 12.64% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within New Jersey this is lower-paid work. Of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 445. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $38,780 the take-home is $32,700; in national-average money that behaves like $30,032. The average comes to $47,300, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Jersey's $38,780 median for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks places it 36 of 50 states, about 12.64% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation New Jersey reports, reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks ranks 445 of 490, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in New Jersey, on $38,780, is $32,700; deflated by the state's price level, $30,032. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $47,300 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,910 |
| This salary | $38,780 |
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 New Jersey | $32,700 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,340 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,277 |
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 | $37,984 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,172 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 New Jersey earn under $38,780 and half over. The published range runs $38,780 at the tenth percentile to $76,910 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $32,700 take-home in New Jersey comes from $38,780. 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 445 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Jersey, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $30,032, the adjusted value of that $38,780 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 445 of 490 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in New Jersey, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,780 to $76,910; 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 $32,700, from $38,780, assumes a single New Jersey 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 445 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 36 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Jersey, so $30,032 — the adjusted value of that $38,780 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 445 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $47,300, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,780 and the top tenth $76,910 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $30,032 rather than its face figure.
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 New Jersey adds its own income tax on top — which is why $32,700 of this wage survives to your account.
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 New Jersey is $47,300. 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 ($38,780) and the ninetieth ($76,910) 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?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $30,032 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 $32,700 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.