Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,414
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$9,606
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,710
Delaware costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Delaware — 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
$49,020
Kept after tax
$39,414
Worth in national money
$39,710
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Delaware. The middle earner gets $49,020. That is 45 of 50 states, and about 19.85% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 292 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $49,020, tax leaves $39,414, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,710 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $53,590, since top earners drag the number up.
- For meeting, convention, and event planners, Delaware sits in the lower band at $49,020, ranking 45 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 19.85%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 292 of 445 in Delaware 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 Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for meeting, convention, and event planners — median $49,020 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,414 retained, $39,710 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $53,590 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 | $34,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,870 |
| This salary | $49,020 |
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 Delaware | $39,414 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,568 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,066 |
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 | $46,340 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,707 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,020 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,330 and the ninetieth is $79,870 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $39,414, from $49,020, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 292 of 445 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Delaware, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,710, the adjusted value of that $49,020 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 292 of 445 in the state.
- The Delaware median of $49,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,330 to $79,870. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Delaware is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,414 from $49,020. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 292 of 445 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Delaware, so $39,710 — the adjusted value of that $49,020 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 292 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $53,590, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $34,330 and the top tenth $79,870 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $39,710.
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 Delaware's own levy, $39,414 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Delaware is $53,590. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($34,330) and the ninetieth ($79,870) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Delaware's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $39,710 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $39,414 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Delaware 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.