Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,357
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$9,113
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,763
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$57,470
Kept after tax
$48,357
Worth in national money
$49,763
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $57,470, ranking 24 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 236 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $57,470 the take-home is $48,357, which is worth about $49,763 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $61,710, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas occupies the middle band for meeting, convention, and event planners: a median of $57,470, ranking 24 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.
- Meeting, convention, and event planners ranks 236 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for meeting, convention, and event planners on its $57,470 median: $48,357 retained after tax becomes $49,763 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $61,710 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 | $34,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,450 |
| This salary | $57,470 |
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 Texas | $48,357 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $48,357 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,019 |
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 | $57,470 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,888 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn less than $57,470. The published range is $34,990 up to $95,450, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,357 take-home in Texas comes from $57,470. 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 236 of 493.
- Two cautions on $49,763, the adjusted value of that $57,470 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 236 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for meeting, convention, and event planners in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,990 to $95,450. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,357, from $57,470, assumes a single Texas 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 236 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 24 of 50 for it.
- This $49,763 adjusted figure, worked from $57,470, 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 236 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 236 of 493 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 $61,710, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,990, the highest tenth $95,450, 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 Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $49,763 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $48,357 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 Texas is $61,710. 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 ($34,990) and the ninetieth ($95,450) 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?
Texas'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 $49,763 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $48,357 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.