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The majority of event professionals (51%) feel that their salary will stay the same in 2018. (49%) believe salaries will rise! The projected growth for meeting, convention, and event planners is expected to increase 11% in the USA between 2017-2026, faster than average. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018) The events industry in the USA provides over 5.9 million jobs. (Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council, 2018) The UK events sector employs over 530,000 people in 25,000 events businesses. (Business Visits & Events Partnership, 2017) $87,160 is the average event planner salary in New York City, USA (EventMB, 2018). £76,107 is the average salary for event planners in London, UK (EventMB, 2018). Business-to-business (B2B) events industry revenue worldwide amounted to 30.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, up from 29.3 billion a year earlier. (Statista, 2018) 73.6% of business-to-business (B2B) events industry revenue worldwide was in the United States in 2017, 19.8% from emerging markets, 14.4% from continental Europe, 5.8% from the United Kingdom and 16.4% from the Rest of World. (Statista, 2018) In the US, 3.9 million meetings occurred in 2017, with 251 million meeting participants. (Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council, 2018) In the US, direct spending on meetings increased by 33% between 2015 and 2017, primarily due to increases in the number of meeting participants. (Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council, 2018) US meetings generated $325 billion of direct spending and $845 billion in business sales in 2017. (Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council, 2018) The UK events industry is worth over £69.1bn, up from £86.1 bn. The spend represents 35% of the total value of the UK visitor economy. (Business Visits & Events Partnership, 2018) There are around 2.3m meetings held in the UK each year. (Business Visits & Events Partnership)