Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,814
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$8,736
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,530
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wyoming — 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
$55,550
Kept after tax
$46,814
Worth in national money
$51,530
State rank
26
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $55,550, ranking 26 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 240 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $55,550 you keep $46,814, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $51,530 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $61,350, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for meeting, convention, and event planners: a median of $55,550, ranking 26 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.
- Position 240 of 433 in Wyoming 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 Wyoming income tax, retained pay for meeting, convention, and event planners on $55,550 is $46,814. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $51,530 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 $61,350 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 | $42,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,860 |
| This salary | $55,550 |
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 Wyoming | $46,814 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,814 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,355 |
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 | $55,550 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,058 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
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 Wyoming earn under $55,550 and half over. The published range runs $42,410 at the tenth percentile to $84,860 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 Wyoming's $46,814, worked from $55,550. 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 240 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $51,530 uses one figure for the whole of Wyoming. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 433 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 240.
- Figures are distribution medians for meeting, convention, and event planners in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,410 to $84,860; 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 Wyoming take-home of $46,814, on $55,550 for work ranking 240 of 433 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 240 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $51,530, worked from $55,550, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wyoming address, on work sitting at 240 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $61,350, 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 $42,410 and the top tenth $84,860 — 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 $51,530.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $46,814 of this wage reaches your account, because Wyoming takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Wyoming is $61,350. 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 ($42,410) and the ninetieth ($84,860) 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?
Wyoming'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 $51,530 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?
Wyoming levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $46,814 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.