Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,139
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$5,391
14.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,820
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$38,530
Kept after tax
$33,139
Worth in national money
$35,820
State rank
38
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Tennessee. The middle earner gets $38,530. That is 38 of 50 states, and about 13.2% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 491 occupations Tennessee publishes, this job lands at 409. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Tennessee is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $38,530 the take-home is $33,139; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $35,820 would nationally. The average comes to $49,770, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, Tennessee sits in the lower band at $38,530, ranking 38 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 13.2%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Tennessee, this work ranks 409 of 491 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 Tennessee, on $38,530, is $33,139 — equivalent to $35,820 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 $49,770 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 | $35,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,020 |
| This salary | $38,530 |
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 Tennessee | $33,139 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,139 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,718 |
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 | $38,530 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,077 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
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 Tennessee earn under $38,530 and half over. The published range runs $35,750 at the tenth percentile to $81,020 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Tennessee the take-home figure of $33,139, from $38,530, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 409 of 491 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $35,820 uses one figure for the whole of Tennessee. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 409.
- Figures are distribution medians for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,750 to $81,020; 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.
- Take-home for Tennessee is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,139 from $38,530. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 409 of 491 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,820, worked from $38,530, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Tennessee address, on work sitting at 409 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $49,770, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,750, the highest tenth $81,020, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Tennessee sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $35,820 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $33,139 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?
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 Tennessee is $49,770. 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 ($35,750) and the ninetieth ($81,020) 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?
Tennessee'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 $35,820 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?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $33,139 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.