Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,166
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$7,354
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,919
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$48,520
Kept after tax
$41,166
Worth in national money
$37,919
State rank
4
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays this job a middle wage of $48,520, ranking 4 of 50 states and sitting about 9.3% above the national middle.
- Against 493 occupations Washington publishes, this job lands at 407. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,520 the take-home is $41,166; in national-average money that behaves like $37,919. The average comes to $56,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington's median for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks is $48,520, about 9.3% above the national figure and 4 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Washington, this work ranks 407 of 493 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.
- Take-home for reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks in Washington, on $48,520, is $41,166; deflated by the state's price level, $37,919. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $56,400 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 | $44,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,170 |
| This salary | $48,520 |
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 Washington | $41,166 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,166 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,443 |
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 | $48,520 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,374 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,520 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,080 and the ninetieth is $79,170 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Washington's $41,166, worked from $48,520. 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 407 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,919, the adjusted value of that $48,520 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 407 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $48,520 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,080 to $79,170. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Washington take-home of $41,166, on $48,520 for work ranking 407 of 493 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 407 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $37,919 — the adjusted value of that $48,520 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 407 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $56,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $44,080 at the bottom tenth to $79,170 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $37,919 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,166 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?
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 Washington is $56,400. 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 ($44,080) and the ninetieth ($79,170) 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?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $37,919 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,166 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.