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Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners pay in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA and San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners is $90,560 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. It is $63,760 per year in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA is 42.0% above San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 13-1121 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 1,190 wage and salary jobs in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA and 140 in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.