Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$24,692
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$4,438
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$25,325
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$29,130
Kept after tax
$24,692
Worth in national money
$25,325
State rank
30
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Pennsylvania pays this job around $29,130 at the midpoint, 30 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 492 occupations Pennsylvania publishes, this job lands at 485. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $29,130, tax leaves $24,692, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $25,325 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $29,790, since top earners drag the number up.
- For ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers the Pennsylvania median is $29,130, ranking 30 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 Pennsylvania, this work ranks 485 of 492 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 Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers — median $29,130 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $24,692 retained, $25,325 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $29,790 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 | $21,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $29,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $36,750 |
| This salary | $29,130 |
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 Pennsylvania | $24,692 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $25,586 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,005 |
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 | $28,029 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,201 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $29,130 as a midpoint for Pennsylvania, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $21,310 and the ninetieth is $36,750 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $24,692 take-home in Pennsylvania comes from $29,130. 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 485 of 492.
- Two cautions on $25,325, the adjusted value of that $29,130 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Pennsylvania. 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 485 of 492 locally.
- The Pennsylvania median of $29,130 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $21,310 to $36,750. 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 $24,692, from $29,130, assumes a single Pennsylvania 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 485 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 50 for it.
- This $25,325 adjusted figure, worked from $29,130, 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 485 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 485 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $21,310 at the tenth percentile, $36,750 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Pennsylvania sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $25,325 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Pennsylvania's own levy, $24,692 remains.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($21,310 to $36,750) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Pennsylvania rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Pennsylvania'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 $25,325 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 $24,692 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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.