Traveler Accommodation

Median gross receipts of $19,904 put the typical filer somewhere between a serious side income and a failing attempt at a full-time one, and the receipts figure alone cannot tell you which.

With 67,811 filers, this is a populated field. The market sets the price rather than you, and the useful question is what would let you charge above it.

A 13.1% share — 8,883 filers — grossed $100,000 or more. That is well above what most codes here manage, and it says the middle of Traveler Accommodation is closer to a business than to a sideline.

Independent accommodation suits people who own or control the property, because the return is on the asset far more than on the hospitality.

Nothing stops anyone filing under this code, and 67,811 people did. Free entry is why the lower bands are as full as they are: the distribution below counts everyone who tried, not everyone who was ready.

Bottom quarter under $7,065, top quarter over $49,901: 7.1x, or $3,569 a month. At this stretch the label has stopped describing one occupation, and every summary statistic about it — including the midpoint — should be treated with suspicion.

The bottom quarter of Traveler Accommodation earns under $7,065 — $42,955 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.

Do not start this on a mortgage that assumes peak occupancy, and check what the local rules actually permit before you buy.

Of 67,811 filers in 2022, 33.5% took under $10,000 across the whole year in gross receipts: 22,737 people. Whatever the working version of Traveler Accommodation looks like, a third or more never reach it.

That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.

At 7.1x, the gap between $7,065 and $49,901 is the shape of a field with a small, well-paid top. $19,904 is real and it is not a forecast — the people quoting the upper end at you are describing a minority.

In cash terms the middle half of Traveler Accommodation runs $7,065 to $49,901 — $42,836 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $19,904.

Getting to $49,901, the 75th percentile, is worth $29,997 a year more than the $19,904 midpoint and $42,836 more than the $7,065 a quarter of Traveler Accommodation settle for.

From $19,904 the drop to $7,065 is $12,839 and the climb to $49,901 is $29,997. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.

Converted to a 2,080-hour year, the receipts run $3.39 an hour at the 25th percentile, $9.56 at the midpoint and $23.99 at the 75th. Read them as revenue per hour worked; the equivalent wage is lower by whatever this work costs to do.

The raw counts, before anyone interprets them: under $5,000, 12,882 filers. $5,000 to $9,999, 9,858. $10,000 to $24,999, 16,910. Over $100,000, 8,866 — and 2,771 over $250,000.