Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,005
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$8,995
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,330
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$49,000
Kept after tax
$40,005
Worth in national money
$44,330
State rank
46
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Montana pays this job a middle wage of $49,000, 46 of 50 states and about 19.88% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 297 among 475 occupations Montana publishes pay for.
- Here is where Montana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $49,000 you keep $40,005, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $44,330 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $53,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Montana's $49,000 median for meeting, convention, and event planners places it 46 of 50 states, about 19.88% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 297 of 475 in Montana 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.
- After federal, FICA and Montana income tax, retained pay for meeting, convention, and event planners on $49,000 is $40,005. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $44,330 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $53,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,150 |
| This salary | $49,000 |
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 Montana | $40,005 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,552 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,571 |
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 | $47,076 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,899 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Montana earn less than $49,000. The published range is $35,210 up to $75,150, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $40,005 take-home in Montana comes from $49,000. 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 297 of 475.
- Two cautions on $44,330, the adjusted value of that $49,000 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Montana. 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 297 of 475 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for meeting, convention, and event planners in Montana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,210 to $75,150. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $40,005, from $49,000, assumes a single Montana 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 297 of 475 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 50 for it.
- This $44,330 adjusted figure, worked from $49,000, 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 297 of 475 in the state. The occupation ranks 297 of 475 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,080, 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 $35,210 and the top tenth $75,150 — 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 $44,330.
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 Montana's own levy, $40,005 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.
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 Montana is $53,080. 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 ($35,210) and the ninetieth ($75,150) 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?
Montana'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 $44,330 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 $40,005 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.