Travel Agents in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,581
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$8,679
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,908
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
$55,260
Kept after tax
$46,581
Worth in national money
$42,908
State rank
15
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays travel agents a middle wage of $55,260, ranking 15 of 49 states and sitting about 10.17% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 354 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $55,260 the take-home is $46,581; in national-average money that behaves like $42,908. The average comes to $60,690, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington's median for travel agents is $55,260, about 10.17% above the national figure and 15 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Travel agents ranks 354 of 493 occupations in Washington by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for travel agents in Washington, on $55,260, is $46,581; deflated by the state's price level, $42,908. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $60,690 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Travel Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,390 |
| This salary | $55,260 |
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 | $46,581 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,581 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,028 |
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 | $55,260 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,081 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Washington earn less than $55,260. The published range is $45,190 up to $92,390, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $46,581 take-home in Washington comes from $55,260. 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 354 of 493.
- Two cautions on $42,908, the adjusted value of that $55,260 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 354 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for travel agents in Washington the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,190 to $92,390. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $46,581, from $55,260, assumes a single Washington 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 354 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 49 for it.
- This $42,908 adjusted figure, worked from $55,260, 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 354 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 354 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $60,690, 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 $45,190, the highest tenth $92,390, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $42,908 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $46,581 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington 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 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 Washington is $60,690. 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 ($45,190) and the ninetieth ($92,390) 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 $42,908 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 $46,581 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.