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Travel Agents · SOC 41-3041

Travel Agents Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$50,650
Median hourly wage$24.35

Travel Agents in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $50,650 per year ($24.35 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $35,440 at the 10th percentile to $79,360 at the 90th. BLS estimates 660 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Travel Agents in the Washington metro area earn more than $50,650 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $38,590 and $63,290.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$35,440$38,590$50,650$63,290$79,360
Hourly$17.04$18.56$24.35$30.43$38.15

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $50,650
  • District of Columbiastate (DC)
    $61,560
  • United Statesnational
    $50,160

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −18% vs District of Columbia overall and +1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$21,120$36,560$52,000$67,440Oklahoma City, OK — $21,120San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $23,040Columbia, SC — $31,650Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $33,130Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $34,640New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $35,990El Paso, TX — $37,490Rapid City, SD — $37,990Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $38,000Springfield, MO — $38,050Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $38,220Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $38,430Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $39,780Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $39,810Toledo, OH — $40,770Tucson, AZ — $42,810Green Bay, WI — $42,860Baton Rouge, LA — $43,930Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $44,570North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $44,580Albuquerque, NM — $44,700Minot, ND — $44,740Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $44,950Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $44,970Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $44,980Columbus, OH — $45,100Akron, OH — $45,120Richmond, VA — $45,230Gainesville, FL — $45,300Rochester, NY — $45,320Fresno, CA — $45,440Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $45,740Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $45,750Cleveland, OH — $46,000Tulsa, OK — $46,050Wichita, KS — $46,080Knoxville, TN — $46,450St. Louis, MO-IL — $46,460Springfield, MA — $46,500San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $46,850Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $46,970Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $47,120Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $47,260Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $47,420Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $47,530Pittsburgh, PA — $47,540Anchorage, AK — $47,550Urban Honolulu, HI — $47,580Eugene-Springfield, OR — $47,600Fort Wayne, IN — $47,610Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $47,890Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $47,990Greensboro-High Point, NC — $48,010Ogden, UT — $48,020Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $48,030Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $48,090Ann Arbor, MI — $48,110Boise City, ID — $48,110Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $48,410Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $48,660Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $48,670Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $48,680Lexington-Fayette, KY — $48,720Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $48,880Birmingham, AL — $48,980Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $49,160Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,160Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $49,200San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $49,240Syracuse, NY — $49,310Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $49,420Charlottesville, VA — $49,480Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $49,650Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $49,670Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $49,830Worcester, MA — $49,980Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $50,010Port St. Lucie, FL — $50,010Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $50,160Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $50,280Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $50,430Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $50,440Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $50,520Jacksonville, FL — $50,590Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $50,650Madison, WI — $50,660Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $50,720Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $51,760Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $51,800Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $51,980Omaha, NE-IA — $52,060Colorado Springs, CO — $52,870Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $55,260Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $55,260Kansas City, MO-KS — $56,210Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $56,510Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $56,570Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $57,390Naples-Marco Island, FL — $57,720San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $58,000Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $58,030Boulder, CO — $58,050Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $58,140New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $58,430Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $58,690San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $58,760Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $58,860Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $58,880Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $58,890Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $59,090Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $59,140Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $59,370Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $59,820Raleigh-Cary, NC — $59,860Winston-Salem, NC — $60,110Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $60,310Reading, PA — $60,470Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $60,560Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $60,580New Haven, CT — $61,330Bend, OR — $61,570Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $62,870Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $63,400Bozeman, MT — $67,440

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Washington metro area has the 40th-highest published median for this occupation among the 124 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Retail Salespersons$36,610Cashiers$35,470Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$78,110First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$50,530Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$64,300Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$74,730

Highest-paying metro areas for travel agentss · Highest-paying occupations in Washington Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.