There are many ticket gates at the subway station. The managers are quite careful about the load degree of the ticket gates. This paper studies two different methods to calculate the load degree of the ticket gates. One is based on the station ticket gates group as the research object, and the other one is based on the volume of passenger flow passing in and out of the station as the research object. Then we use the data investigated at Chaoyangmen station in Beijing to test and verify both of the methods. At last, we can get the conclusion that we can get the same result by the two methods, but the method of based on the volume of passenger flow passing in and out of the station is more reasonable.