Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($22,880) to the 90th ($40,210). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 119,210 people in May 2024, 0.08% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 15,800 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 32.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Nevada, whose location quotient of 3.16 says this work is 3.16 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $27,140 at the 25th percentile, $31,150 at the middle, $35,650 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $17,330, a ratio of 1.8 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, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $40,160; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers stands number 240 by employment and number 821 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 17% less than its group median, and it supplies 3.8% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 14 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $31,150, 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 7,370 jobs, 6.2% 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, Knoxville, TN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $21,650 a year, against $42,030 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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

As a household number, $31,150 a year is $2,596 a month gross, $1,198 every two weeks, $599 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($27,140) to the 75th ($35,650) is worth $8,510 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $2,596 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $34,265 would sit between the median ($31,150) and the 75th percentile ($35,650), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $27,140, is $4,010 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

Sibling occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations: Recreation Workers, Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors, Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists, Animal Caretakers, Manicurists and Pedicurists, First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.