Occupation / job
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks pays $44,390 where the typical job pays $50,020 — $2.70 an hour apart. That is close enough to average that the interesting numbers on this page are the percentiles, not the median.
118,710 people are employed as Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
These roles suit people who want indoor, scheduled work with predictable demands, and who are good at being the person who knows where things are.
We carry no verified training length for Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $37,850 and a quarter above $59,640: a 1.6x ratio, $21,790 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
A quarter of the field earns under $37,850 — $12,170 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if absorbing other people’s frustration all day would wear you down; that is the substance of the role.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 118,710 figure counts people already working as Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $44,390 as where you might be after years in Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks, and $37,850 as where you would start.
The middle half of this field earns between $37,850 and $59,640. That is $21,790 of range, with $44,390 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $37,850 and $59,640 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $44,390. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $15,250; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $21,790.
The upper half of the middle range — $44,390 to $59,640, or $15,250 — is far longer than the lower half at $6,540. In a shape like this an average would flatter Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks considerably, and would describe nobody.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $18.19 at the bottom quarter, $21.34 at the midpoint, $28.67 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks. The self-employed are excluded, so $44,390 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks, the hourly figure is $44,390 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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