Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,890
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,330
13.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,846
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$38,220
Kept after tax
$32,890
Worth in national money
$33,846
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $38,220, ranking 40 of 50 states — about 13.9% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Texas, this one sits low: 406 of 493 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $38,220, tax leaves $32,890, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $33,846 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $45,900, since top earners drag the number up.
- Texas ranks 40 of 50 for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, with a median of $38,220 — about 13.9% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks occupies position 406 of 493 in Texas'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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks — median $38,220 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $32,890 retained, $33,846 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $45,900 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 | $29,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,110 |
| This salary | $38,220 |
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 Texas | $32,890 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $32,890 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,054 |
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 | $38,220 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,644 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $38,220. The published range is $29,870 up to $79,110, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $32,890 take-home in Texas comes from $38,220. 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 406 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $33,846, the adjusted value of that $38,220 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 406 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $29,870 to $79,110. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $32,890, from $38,220, assumes a single Texas 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 406 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $33,846 — the adjusted value of that $38,220 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 406 of 493 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 $45,900, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $29,870, the highest tenth $79,110, 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. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $33,846 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,890 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Texas is $45,900. 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 ($29,870) and the ninetieth ($79,110) 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?
Texas'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 $33,846 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $32,890 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.