Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,675
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$5,365
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,275
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$34,040
Kept after tax
$28,675
Worth in national money
$28,275
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Rhode Island pays this job a middle wage of $34,040, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 3.43% above the national middle.
- Against 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes, this job lands at 444. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $34,040, tax leaves $28,675, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $28,275 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $34,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- Rhode Island's median for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers is $34,040, about 3.43% above the national figure and 13 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Rhode Island, this work ranks 444 of 452 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 Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers — median $34,040 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $28,675 retained, $28,275 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $34,750 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 | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $42,780 |
| This salary | $34,040 |
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 Rhode Island | $28,675 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,531 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,114 |
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 | $32,974 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,557 |
| 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 Rhode Island earn under $34,040 and half over. The published range runs $31,200 at the tenth percentile to $42,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $28,675 take-home in Rhode Island comes from $34,040. 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 444 of 452.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $28,275 uses one figure for the whole of Rhode Island. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 452 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 444.
- Figures are distribution medians for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,200 to $42,780; 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.
- Retained pay of $28,675, from $34,040, assumes a single Rhode Island 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 444 of 452 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $28,275, worked from $34,040, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Rhode Island address, on work sitting at 444 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,200 at the tenth percentile, $42,780 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $28,275 of national purchasing power.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $28,675 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 ($31,200 to $42,780) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $28,275 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 $28,675 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.