Employment Percentage: 
20.612997824236
SOC ID: 
43-4181
SOC Title: 
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
ONET ID: 
43-4181.00
ONET Concat ID: 
43418100
Median Salary: 
35554.97
Ed Level High School: 
84.5
Ed Level Certificate: 
0.59
Ed Level Some College: 
12.15
Ed Level Associates: 
2.18
Ed Level Bachelors: 
0.59
Ed Level Masters: 
0
Ed Level Doctor: 
0
Typical Ed Level: 
a high school diploma or less
Description: 

Make and confirm reservations for transportation or lodging, or sell transportation tickets. May check baggage and direct passengers to designated concourse, pier, or track; deliver tickets, contact individuals and groups to inform them of package tours; or provide tourists with travel or transportation information.

Core Tasks: 

<ul><li>Examine passenger documentation to determine destinations and to assign boarding passes.</li><li>Trace lost, delayed, or misdirected baggage for customers.</li><li>Provide boarding or disembarking assistance to passengers needing special assistance.</li><li>Check baggage and cargo and direct passengers to designated locations for loading.</li><li>Confer with customers to determine their service requirements and travel preferences.</li><li>Announce arrival and departure information, using public address systems.</li><li>Determine whether space is available on travel dates requested by customers, assigning requested spaces when available.</li><li>Assemble and issue required documentation, such as tickets, travel insurance policies, or itineraries.</li><li>Inform clients of essential travel information, such as travel times, transportation connections, or medical and visa requirements.</li><li>Maintain computerized inventories of available passenger space and provide information on space reserved or available.</li><li>Plan routes, itineraries, and accommodation details, and compute fares and fees, using schedules, rate books, and computers.</li><li>Answer inquiries regarding information, such as schedules, accommodations, procedures, or policies.</li><li>Make and confirm reservations for transportation and accommodations, using telephones, faxes, mail, and computers.</li><li>Keep information facilities clean during operation.</li></ul>

Start Annual Earnings: 
25459.5
Top Annual Earnings: 
71461.3
Title Slug: 
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