Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$25,043
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$3,497
12.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,277
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$28,540
Kept after tax
$25,043
Worth in national money
$27,277
State rank
33
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Ohio pays this job around $28,540 at the midpoint, 33 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 494 occupations Ohio publishes, this job lands at 487. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Ohio is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $28,540 the take-home is $25,043; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $27,277 would nationally. The average comes to $30,280, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers the Ohio median is $28,540, ranking 33 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 Ohio, this work ranks 487 of 494 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.
- Post-tax income for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in Ohio, on $28,540, is $25,043 — equivalent to $27,277 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $30,280 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $23,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $28,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $35,740 |
| This salary | $28,540 |
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 Ohio | $25,043 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $25,112 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,435 |
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 | $28,456 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,735 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $28,540 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $23,400 and the ninetieth is $35,740 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $25,043 take-home in Ohio comes from $28,540. 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 487 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Ohio, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $27,277, the adjusted value of that $28,540 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 487 of 494 in the state.
- The Ohio median of $28,540 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $23,400 to $35,740. 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 $25,043, from $28,540, assumes a single Ohio 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 487 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Ohio, so $27,277 — the adjusted value of that $28,540 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 487 of 494 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 $30,280, 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 $23,400 and the top tenth $35,740, so most people doing this work in Ohio sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Ohio is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $27,277 in national terms.
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 Ohio adds its own income tax on top — which is why $25,043 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Ohio is $30,280. 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 ($23,400 to $35,740) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio'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 $27,277 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 $25,043 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.