Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks offer sit among all 127,440 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

May 2024 employment stood at 127,440, or 0.08% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 20,450 jobs; the top three states sum to 40.8% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Alaska posts a location quotient of 3.60, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $37,200 at the 25th percentile, $41,460 at the middle, $54,930 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $40,500, a ratio of 2.2 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 50 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is North Carolina at $52,740; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks stands number 233 by employment and number 681 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 13% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.7% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 19 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $41,460, 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

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 11,270 jobs, 8.8% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Omaha, NE-IA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $39,210 a year, against $55,350 in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks paycheck, gross, is $1,595 every two weeks on an annual $41,460, which is $3,455 a month and $797 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,200) to the 75th ($54,930) is worth $17,730 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $45,606 would sit between the median ($41,460) and the 75th percentile ($54,930), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,200, is $4,260 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Sibling occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations: Order Clerks, Library Assistants, Clerical, File Clerks, Postal Service Clerks, Couriers and Messengers, Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.