Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,328
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$11,002
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,778
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$61,330
Kept after tax
$50,328
Worth in national money
$49,778
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Arizona pays this job a middle wage of $61,330, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 0.28% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 220 among 491 occupations Arizona publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $61,330, tax leaves $50,328, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,778 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $62,650, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arizona's median for meeting, convention, and event planners is $61,330, about 0.28% above the national figure and 13 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 220 of 491 in Arizona places meeting, convention, and event planners in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for meeting, convention, and event planners — median $61,330 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,328 retained, $49,778 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $62,650 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,730 |
| This salary | $61,330 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Arizona | $50,328 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,459 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,177 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $59,923 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,842 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $61,330. The published range is $38,820 up to $92,730, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $50,328 take-home in Arizona comes from $61,330. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 220 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Arizona, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $49,778, the adjusted value of that $61,330 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 220 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for meeting, convention, and event planners in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,820 to $92,730. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $50,328, from $61,330, assumes a single Arizona filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 220 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Arizona, so $49,778 — the adjusted value of that $61,330 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 220 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,820 and the top tenth $92,730 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Arizona run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $49,778 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Arizona's own levy, $50,328 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,820) and the ninetieth ($92,730) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,778 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $50,328 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.