Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,383
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$12,897
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,462
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$63,280
Kept after tax
$50,383
Worth in national money
$48,462
State rank
10
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maryland is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $63,280, which ranks 10 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 3.47% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Maryland, this sits in the middle: 241 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Maryland is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $63,280 the take-home is $50,383; in national-average money that behaves like $48,462. The average comes to $70,840, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Maryland ranks 10 of 50 states publishing a median for meeting, convention, and event planners, at $63,280 — about 3.47% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Meeting, convention, and event planners ranks 241 of 489 occupations in Maryland 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.
- Take-home for meeting, convention, and event planners in Maryland, on $63,280, is $50,383; deflated by the state's price level, $48,462. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $70,840 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 | $38,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,770 |
| This salary | $63,280 |
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 Maryland | $50,383 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,025 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,105 |
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 | $59,992 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,384 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
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 Maryland earn under $63,280 and half over. The published range runs $38,990 at the tenth percentile to $107,770 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,383 take-home in Maryland comes from $63,280. 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 241 of 489.
- Two cautions on $48,462, the adjusted value of that $63,280 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Maryland. 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 241 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for meeting, convention, and event planners in Maryland, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,990 to $107,770; 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 $50,383, from $63,280, assumes a single Maryland 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 241 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 50 for it.
- This $48,462 adjusted figure, worked from $63,280, 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 241 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 241 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $70,840, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,990 and the top tenth $107,770 — 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 Maryland run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $48,462 — 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 Maryland's own levy, $50,383 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Maryland is $70,840. 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 ($38,990) and the ninetieth ($107,770) 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?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $48,462 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 $50,383 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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.