Airport Airline Clerk Salary
From issuing tickets and checking in luggage to verifying passports and conveying elderly patrons to their respective departure gates, airport airline clerks provide customer service to the public traveling by air. They work for an airline, responding to customer inquiries and ensuring that passengers get to their flight as smoothly as possible. Salary levels for the role are comparable with those for travel clerks working in other forms of transportation.
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Average Salary
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies airport airline clerks alongside other reservation and transportation ticket agents and clerks. In May 210, it reported that the mean annual salary for this occupational group was $32,640, which equates to an hourly pay of $15.69. Top earners --- those in the highest 10 percent – received salaries in excess of $46,480, while their colleagues in the lowest 10 percent earned less than $19,940.
Salary by Industry
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The largest numbers of airline clerks work within scheduled air transportation, according to the bureau’s survey. It gave the mean yearly wage within this sector of the aviation industry as $35,010. Airport airline clerks may also fall into the category of support activities for air transportation, which had a mean of $25,780. Positions within travel arrangement and reservation services paid $28,670. As a comparison, travel clerks working within rail transportation earned a mean of $42,630, while those involved with bus transportation received a mean of $25,010.
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Salary by Location
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The bureau listed District of Columbia as the location in which transportation clerks such as airport airline clerks were likely to earn the best wages, with an annual mean of $37,780. Michigan followed, at $37,380. Illinois, Kentucky and Oregon completed the top five with similar rates to each other -- $35,750, $35,390 and $35,010, respectively. Arizona and Nevada had comparable pay rates -- $32,800 and $32,320, while Utah was among the states with the lowest wages, a yearly mean of just $27,280. The most lucrative single metropolitan area was Tucson, Arizona at $39,690 per year.
Outlook
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the job market for travel clerks, including airport airline clerks, will grow by around 8 percent over the time from 2008 to 2018. This corresponds with the estimated growth rate for the United States as a whole across all professions, projected to be between 7 and 13 percent for the same period, and should mean wages remain competitive. There will be increased demand for air travel services as the population grows, although increased automation of check-in and ticket facilities at airports will restrict growth in opportunities.
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