Utah·Business and Financial Operations Occupations·SOC 13-1121

Best Meeting programs in Utah, ranked by enrollment

Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or.

2 schools in Utah run programs that feed this job, graduating 17 people a year. The job pays a median of $54,150 in Utah across about 1,970 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledEvents ManagerConference Planning ManagerConference Services ManagerConvention Services Manager (CSM)PlannerEvent StaffEvent ManagerEvent Planner
Graduates / yr
17
in Utah
Median pay · Utah
$54,150
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,970
people employed
Schools
2
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
63%
across those schools
Median net price
$13,712
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Utah that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Utah that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Utah (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Utah page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 19.0604In Utah
17
100.0%
2$38,637$25,683

Top 2 schools in Utah

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 2 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Brigham Young University
Provo, UT Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
14Facilities Planning and Management$67,73781%$13,71268%
2Utah Valley University
Orem, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
3Facilities Planning and Management45%

All 2 schools in Utah

Every school in Utah with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Utah that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Brigham Young UniversityProvoPrivate not-for-profit141
Utah Valley UniversityOremPublic31

What meeting, convention, and event planners earn in Utah

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Utah
$54,150
Mean annual
$57,570
Jobs in state
1,970
What the range looks like
10th pct$32,030Median$54,15090th pct$90,220
Versus the national median
-11.5%

U.S. median $61,160. Utah pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.24×

Concentrated here: Utah employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Utah

Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT
$57,520median
340 jobs
St. George, UT
$53,840median
110 jobs
Logan, UT-ID
$55,730median
50 jobs
Ogden, UT
$52,230median
150 jobs
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
$49,970median
1,120 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+4.8%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
15,500
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
7,500
155,800 → 163,300
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners page.

How to become a Meeting

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Utah

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 2 majors mapped to Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 19.0604Facilities Planning and Management
  • 52.0907Meeting and Event Planning

Common questions

Answers for people weighing meeting, convention, and event planners programs in Utah.

What degree do you need to become a Meeting?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Facilities Planning and Management, which awarded 17 degrees in Utah in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Meeting?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Housing and Human Environments. Together they graduate about 17 people a year in Utah.

How much do meeting, convention, and event planners earn in Utah?+

The median is $54,150 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 11.5% below the U.S. median of $61,160. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for meeting, convention, and event planners growing?+

BLS projects a +4.8% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 15,500 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Utah?+

2 institutions in Utah reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do meeting, convention, and event planners work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Events Manager, Conference Planning Manager, Conference Services Manager, Convention Services Manager (CSM) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 13-1121.

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About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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