Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,491
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$11,419
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,816
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$59,910
Kept after tax
$48,491
Worth in national money
$47,816
State rank
18
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Rhode Island pays this job around $59,910 at the midpoint, 18 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 255 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $59,910, tax leaves $48,491, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,816 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $61,230, since top earners drag the number up.
- For meeting, convention, and event planners the Rhode Island median is $59,910, ranking 18 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 255 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Because Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for meeting, convention, and event planners — median $59,910 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,491 retained, $47,816 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $61,230 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 | $36,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,140 |
| This salary | $59,910 |
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 Rhode Island | $48,491 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,318 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,965 |
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 | $57,637 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,795 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,910 as a midpoint for Rhode Island, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,400 and the ninetieth is $96,140 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $48,491, from $59,910, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 255 of 452 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $47,816, the adjusted value of that $59,910 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. 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 255 of 452 locally.
- The Rhode Island median of $59,910 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,400 to $96,140. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,491 from $59,910. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 255 of 452 locally.
- This $47,816 adjusted figure, worked from $59,910, 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 255 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 255 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,400 and the top tenth $96,140 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $47,816 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Rhode Island then takes its own share, leaving $48,491.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,400) and the ninetieth ($96,140) 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?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $47,816 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 $48,491 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.