Travel Agents in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,953
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,547
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,173
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
$49,500
Kept after tax
$41,953
Worth in national money
$43,173
State rank
21
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays travel agents around $49,500 at the midpoint, 21 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 272.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $49,500, tax leaves $41,953, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $43,173 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $52,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- For travel agents the Texas median is $49,500, ranking 21 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, travel agents sits at 272 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for travel agents — median $49,500 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $41,953 retained, $43,173 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $52,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Travel Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,090 |
| This salary | $49,500 |
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 | $41,953 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $41,953 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,620 |
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 | $49,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,373 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,500 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,740 and the ninetieth is $70,090 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,953 take-home in Texas comes from $49,500. 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 272 of 493.
- Two cautions on $43,173, the adjusted value of that $49,500 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 272 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $49,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,740 to $70,090. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $41,953, from $49,500, 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 272 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 49 for it.
- This $43,173 adjusted figure, worked from $49,500, 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 272 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 272 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 $52,330 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 $31,740 at the bottom tenth to $70,090 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $43,173 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,953 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Texas is $52,330. 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 ($31,740) and the ninetieth ($70,090) 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 $43,173 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 $41,953 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.