Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
SOC 13-1121 · 2024-2034
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $72,313per year
- Projected openings
- 22,890
- Projected change
- +6.7%
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Service Orientation
- Critical Thinking
- Coordination
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $82,624 | 1,050 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $81,471 | 2,640 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $77,282 | 210 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $74,419 | 1,220 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $72,958 | 150 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $71,100 | 2,150 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $69,047 | 230 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $68,996 | 1,050 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $67,010 | 3,060 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $66,176 | 5,830 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $65,991 | 420 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $62,518 | 30 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $62,518 | 140 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $62,080 | 80 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $61,938 | 1,480 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $61,174 | 230 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $60,644 | 160 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $60,369 | 340 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $59,900 | 160 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $58,617 | 340 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $57,700 | 380 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $57,242 | 70 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $56,977 | 60 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $56,774 | 70 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $55,083 | 120 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $54,940 | 100 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $52,465 | 140 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $52,078 | 90 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $44,490 | 30 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundraisers | $81,047 | 11,490 | +9.4% |
| Public Relations Specialists | $87,410 | 31,480 | +8.2% |
| Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants | $91,106 | 62,570 | +1.3% |
| Fundraising Managers | $138,149 | 4,840 | +6.8% |
| First-line Supervisors of Entertainment And Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services | $54,978 | 19,590 | +9.9% |
| Project Management Specialists | $122,938 | 89,550 | +6.8% |
Leads to — 7
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