Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,619
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$8,281
16.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,330
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$49,900
Kept after tax
$41,619
Worth in national money
$45,330
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Ohio. The middle earner gets $49,900. That is 42 of 50 states, and about 18.41% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 294 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Ohio is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $49,900 the take-home is $41,619; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $45,330 would nationally. The average comes to $55,410, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For meeting, convention, and event planners, Ohio sits in the lower band at $49,900, ranking 42 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 18.41%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Meeting, convention, and event planners ranks 294 of 494 occupations in Ohio 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 Ohio, on $49,900, is $41,619 — equivalent to $45,330 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 $55,410 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 | $29,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,640 |
| This salary | $49,900 |
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 Ohio | $41,619 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,275 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,827 |
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 | $49,084 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,209 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 Ohio earn under $49,900 and half over. The published range runs $29,910 at the tenth percentile to $81,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Ohio's $41,619, worked from $49,900. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 294 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Ohio, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,330, the adjusted value of that $49,900 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 294 of 494 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for meeting, convention, and event planners in Ohio, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $29,910 to $81,640; 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.
- The Ohio take-home of $41,619, on $49,900 for work ranking 294 of 494 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 294 of 494 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Ohio, so $45,330 — the adjusted value of that $49,900 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 294 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $55,410 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $29,910, the highest tenth $81,640, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Ohio sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,330 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Ohio's own levy, $41,619 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 Ohio is $55,410. 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 ($29,910) and the ninetieth ($81,640) 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?
Ohio'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 $45,330 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 $41,619 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.