Travel Agents in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,193
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$11,477
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,570
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — 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
$56,670
Kept after tax
$45,193
Worth in national money
$47,570
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for travel agents is strong here. Utah's middle earner gets $56,670, putting the state 9 of 49 — about 12.98% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 487 occupations Utah reports figures for, this is number 255.
- Here is where Utah does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $56,670 you keep $45,193, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $47,570 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $54,700, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For travel agents, Utah sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $56,670, ranking 9 of 49 and running about 12.98% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- In Utah's occupational distribution, travel agents sits at 255 of 487 — 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.
- After federal, FICA and Utah income tax, retained pay for travel agents on $56,670 is $45,193. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $47,570 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $54,700 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Travel Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,440 |
| This salary | $56,670 |
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 Utah | $45,193 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,714 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,531 |
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 | $53,531 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,852 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $56,670 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,210 and the ninetieth is $74,440 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $45,193 take-home in Utah comes from $56,670. 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 255 of 487.
- One number stands for prices across all of Utah, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $47,570, the adjusted value of that $56,670 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 255 of 487 in the state.
- The Utah median of $56,670 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,210 to $74,440. 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 $45,193, from $56,670, assumes a single Utah 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 255 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Utah, so $47,570 — the adjusted value of that $56,670 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 255 of 487 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 $54,700 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,210 and the top tenth $74,440, so most people doing this work in Utah sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Utah is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $47,570 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Utah's own levy, $45,193 remains.
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 49 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 Utah is $54,700. 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 ($35,210 to $74,440) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Utah rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Utah'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 $47,570 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 $45,193 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.