Baggage Porters and Bellhops Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Baggage Porters and Bellhops offer sit among all 31,220 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 31,220 jobs nationally, Baggage Porters and Bellhops make up 0.02% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Florida alone holds 5,270 of those jobs, the top three states hold 44.6%, and the deepest concentration sits in Hawaii (location quotient 7.72, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $25,480 or less, and one in ten earns $48,490 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.9 to 1 and the annual gap is $23,010. The mean ($36,960) versus median ($36,020) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Baggage Porters and Bellhops runs from the $45,200 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Florida (5,270 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Baggage Porters and Bellhops stands number 474 by employment and number 775 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 3% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 13 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $36,020, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 4,040 jobs, 12.9% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $32,860 a year, against $49,510 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $36,020 works out to $3,002 a month before taxes, $1,385 per biweekly paycheck, and $693 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,830) to the 75th ($40,780) is worth $10,950 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $39,622 would sit between the median ($36,020) and the 75th percentile ($40,780), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,830, is $6,190 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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