Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,472
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$11,368
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,321
Kansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kansas — 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
$54,840
Kept after tax
$43,472
Worth in national money
$48,321
State rank
29
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Kansas pays this job around $54,840 at the midpoint, 29 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 249 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Kansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $54,840 the take-home is $43,472; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $48,321 would nationally. The average comes to $58,420, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For meeting, convention, and event planners the Kansas median is $54,840, ranking 29 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Meeting, convention, and event planners ranks 249 of 488 occupations in Kansas by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for meeting, convention, and event planners in Kansas, on $54,840, is $43,472 — equivalent to $48,321 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $58,420 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $86,090 |
| This salary | $54,840 |
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 Kansas | $43,472 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,244 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$733 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $51,391 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$887 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of meeting, convention, and event planners in Kansas earn under $54,840 and half over. The published range runs $25,870 at the tenth percentile to $86,090 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $43,472 take-home in Kansas comes from $54,840. 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 249 of 488.
- Two cautions on $48,321, the adjusted value of that $54,840 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Kansas. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 249 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for meeting, convention, and event planners in Kansas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $25,870 to $86,090; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $43,472, from $54,840, assumes a single Kansas 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 249 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 29 of 50 for it.
- This $48,321 adjusted figure, worked from $54,840, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 249 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 249 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $58,420, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $25,870, the highest tenth $86,090, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Kansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $48,321 in national terms.
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 Kansas's own levy, $43,472 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 Kansas is $58,420. 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 ($25,870) and the ninetieth ($86,090) 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?
Kansas'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 $48,321 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 $43,472 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kansas 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.