Occupation / job
Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
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
Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers pays $32,910 against $50,020 for the typical American job — $17,110 a year, or $8.22 an hour, of difference. A gap that size has to be worth something to you that is not money, and it has to keep being worth it.
With 121,770 in the occupation, Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
Entertainment attendant work suits people who like a venue on an event night and can handle crowds, and whose hours can follow a schedule set by a season rather than a week.
We carry no verified training length for Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $28,310 and $36,940, $719 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
The bottom quarter of Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers earns under $28,310 — $21,710 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $13.61 an hour. A floor that low means the occupation cannot be judged on its median alone; a quarter of the people in it are somewhere else entirely.
Avoid it if you need weekday hours; the work is at its busiest exactly when everyone else is off.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 121,770 figure counts people already working as Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers, 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
At 1.3x between $28,310 and $36,940, this is a narrow distribution. $32,910 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
Put in money rather than ratios: $28,310 at the 25th percentile, $32,910 at the midpoint, $36,940 at the 75th. $8,630 separates the quarter of Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $36,940. Reaching it from the $32,910 midpoint is $4,030 a year; reaching it from the $28,310 that the bottom quarter of Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers earn is $8,630.
The fall from $32,910 to the $28,310 bottom quarter is $4,600; the climb to the $36,940 top quarter is $4,030. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $13.61 at the bottom quarter, $15.82 at the midpoint, $17.75 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 Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers. The self-employed are excluded, so $32,910 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers, the hourly figure is $32,910 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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