Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,198
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$4,672
13.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,094
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$34,870
Kept after tax
$30,198
Worth in national money
$34,094
State rank
49
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in North Dakota. The middle earner gets $34,870. That is 49 of 50 states, and about 21.45% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 460 occupations North Dakota publishes, this job lands at 438. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- North Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $34,870 the take-home is $30,198; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $34,094 would nationally. The average comes to $40,480, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, North Dakota sits in the lower band at $34,870, ranking 49 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 21.45%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within North Dakota, this work ranks 438 of 460 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.
- Post-tax income for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in North Dakota, on $34,870, is $30,198 — equivalent to $34,094 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 $40,480 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 | $34,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $52,010 |
| This salary | $34,870 |
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 North Dakota | $30,198 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,198 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,018 |
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 | $34,870 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,650 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
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 North Dakota earn under $34,870 and half over. The published range runs $34,520 at the tenth percentile to $52,010 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 North Dakota's $30,198, worked from $34,870. 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 438 of 460.
- Two cautions on $34,094, the adjusted value of that $34,870 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Dakota. 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 438 of 460 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in North Dakota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,520 to $52,010; 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 North Dakota take-home of $30,198, on $34,870 for work ranking 438 of 460 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 438 of 460 in the state.
- This $34,094 adjusted figure, worked from $34,870, 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 438 of 460 in the state. The occupation ranks 438 of 460 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 $40,480, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,520 at the tenth percentile, $52,010 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. North Dakota is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,094 in national terms.
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 North Dakota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $30,198 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 North Dakota is $40,480. 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 ($34,520 to $52,010) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Dakota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Dakota'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 $34,094 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 $30,198 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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.