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title: "What can you do with a hospitality and event management degree?"
description: "15 careers hospitality and event management graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a hospitality and event management degree?

**What the degree involves:** Operations, food and beverage, revenue management, and long practical placements.

Hospitality progression is driven by operational experience more than by grades, so most graduates start on a floor or a shift and move up. The destinations split between food service, lodging, events and the wider operations roles the training transfers into.

15 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 15 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 15 of 15 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Food Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-service-manager) | $69,390 | +6.4% | 42,000 | High school |
| 2 | First-Line Supervisor of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | $44,080 | +6.0% | 183,900 | High school |
| 3 | [Meeting, Convention, and Event Planner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/meeting-convention-and-event-planner) | $61,160 | +4.8% | 15,500 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/hotel-motel-and-resort-desk-clerk) | $35,070 | +3.7% | 43,600 | High school |
| 5 | Lodging Manager | $69,250 | +3.4% | 5,400 | High school |
| 6 | [Chef](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chef) | $62,470 | +7.1% | 24,400 | High school |
| 7 | Entertainment and Recreation Manager, Except Gambling | $79,520 | +7.7% | 5,500 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | Travel Agent | $50,160 | +2.2% | 7,100 | High school |
| 9 | Concierge | $38,950 | +2.3% | 6,800 | High school |
| 10 | Tour Guide and Escort | $38,120 | +8.1% | 13,000 | High school |
| 11 | [Flight Attendant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/flight-attendant) | $63,580 | +9.2% | 19,800 | High school |
| 12 | Gambling Manager | $93,220 | +1.2% | 600 | High school |
| 13 | [Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/property-real-estate-and-community-association-manager) | $69,990 | +3.6% | 39,000 | High school |
| 14 | [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) | $105,770 | +4.4% | 308,700 | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager) | $148,270 | +4.7% | 49,000 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology