Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,892
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$4,618
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,587
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$32,510
Kept after tax
$27,892
Worth in national money
$27,587
State rank
18
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays this job around $32,510 at the midpoint, 18 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 491 occupations Arizona publishes, this job lands at 490. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $32,510, tax leaves $27,892, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $27,587 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $33,910, since top earners drag the number up.
- For ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers the Arizona median is $32,510, ranking 18 of 50 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.
- Within Arizona, this work ranks 490 of 491 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.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers — median $32,510 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $27,892 retained, $27,587 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $33,910 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $32,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $37,560 |
| This salary | $32,510 |
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 Arizona | $27,892 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,302 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,538 |
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 | $31,999 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,860 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in Arizona earn under $32,510 and half over. The published range runs $30,580 at the tenth percentile to $37,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Arizona the take-home figure of $27,892, from $32,510, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 490 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $27,587, the adjusted value of that $32,510 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 490 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in Arizona, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,580 to $37,560; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Arizona is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $27,892 from $32,510. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 490 of 491 locally.
- This $27,587 adjusted figure, worked from $32,510, 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 490 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 490 of 491 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 $33,910, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $30,580 and the top tenth $37,560, so most people doing this work in Arizona sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Arizona costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $27,587 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Arizona adds its own income tax on top — which is why $27,892 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Arizona is $33,910. 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 ($30,580 to $37,560) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $27,587 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $27,892 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.