Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,114
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$11,786
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,493
Maine costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maine — 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
$57,900
Kept after tax
$46,114
Worth in national money
$47,493
State rank
21
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $57,900, ranking 21 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 260 among 484 occupations Maine publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,900, tax leaves $46,114, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,493 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $62,110, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine occupies the middle band for meeting, convention, and event planners: a median of $57,900, ranking 21 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 260 of 484 in Maine 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 Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for meeting, convention, and event planners — median $57,900 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $46,114 retained, $47,493 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $62,110 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 | $45,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,410 |
| This salary | $57,900 |
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 Maine | $46,114 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,703 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,625 |
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 | $54,679 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,175 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Maine earn less than $57,900. The published range is $45,760 up to $80,410, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $46,114 take-home in Maine comes from $57,900. 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 260 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $47,493, the adjusted value of that $57,900 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 260 of 484 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for meeting, convention, and event planners in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,760 to $80,410. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $46,114, from $57,900, assumes a single Maine 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 260 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $47,493 — the adjusted value of that $57,900 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 260 of 484 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 $62,110, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,760 at the bottom tenth to $80,410 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Maine is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $47,493 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Maine adds its own income tax on top — which is why $46,114 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
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 Maine is $62,110. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,760 to $80,410) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Maine rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Maine'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 $47,493 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 $46,114 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maine 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.