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Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
What a meeting, convention, and event planner does
Become a meeting, convention, and event planner
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good meeting, convention, and event planner
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $45 per hour with an average salary of $64,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $26 and $49 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $4,800 and $73,700 per year.
- 42% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $36 per hour with an average salary of $31,500 per year.
Meeting, Convention, And Event Planner job outlook
- There are 2,566 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 755 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 2% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 34% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.