We would like to send thoughts and well wishes to all our members who have been affected by the recent Tornados and Flooding 

Missouri Event Summit: Taste of Missouri provides exhibitors and sponsors with an excellent opportunity to spend time face-to-face with planners who are looking to book meetings. It provides a quality experience in a relaxing, fun environment. It provides sales opportunities, great networking and relationship building, all at a reasonable price.

This year’s event will be held on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, from 4pm to 7 pm at Capitol Bluffs Event Center in Jefferson City. The theme is “A Taste of Missouri." This year's event will be held at Capital Bluffs Event Center, 1616 Oilwell Road, on the north side of the Missouri River at Jefferson City. The event will be held from 4:00-7:00 pm.

Each exhibitor will be asked to serve a food and/or beverage item from their area that is unique or identified with their city, hotel and/or attraction. We will have a limited number of booths and ask exhibitors to describe what they will be serving. To help with ideas, at the Show Me Your Venues and Menus Trade Show in 2014, items served included beer, quinoa salad, Asian chicken salad, pork loin, cookies, s'mores, coffee, wurst, cheese & crackers, brisket, sliders, potato salad, margaritas, chocolate, popcorn, beer nuts and more.

While this year's event will still be a marketing event targeting association and government meeting planners, planners' guests will also be welcome. The goal is to allow planners to sample a taste of Missouri at the various booths while learning about the meeting facilities and amenities that each exhibitor offers in a relaxed, informal setting. We are anticipating approximately 200 people will be in attendance. We'll refine that number as we get closer to the actual event. The attendees will be meeting planners from MIssouri Society of Association Executives and Society of Government Meeting Professionals and their guests. There will be prize drawings for meeting planners only (guests are not eligible) throughout the event to encourage attendance!

Missouri Event Summit is jointly hosted and sponsored by the Missouri Society of Association Executives, Missouri Travel Council and the Society of Government Meeting Professionals.  Please note: To participate in the 2019 Missouri Event Summit, you must be a current member of at least one of these sponsoring organizations.

MSAE 2019 Salary and Benefits Survey is Here

MSAE is pleased to announce the release of our 2019 Salary and Benefits Survey.  This was the first time that MSAE collaborated with state societies of association executives from across the country to produce this valuable tool.  The survey was conducted in February 2019 with 893 participating associations in 30 states. It is conducted every two years by state societies of association executives with Whorton Marketing & Research.. 

There are 3 reports available.  The Missouri State Level Report showing the responses of your in-state or regional peers to all compensation and benefits related questions including a detailed table showing mean, median, and quartiles for 39 specific positions being tracked in the survey.  This report is supplemented by a 65-page 2019 National Report that features a graphical presentation of the findings with narrative discussing each finding, and detailed tables showing how compensation levels, staff characteristics, leave, retirement, insurance, and the roles of the CEO vary by size (ranges of FTE staff and annual revenue), Census Area, geographic scope of the organization, and its membership structure. In addition we've prepared an executive summary.  

MSAE members can purchase the Missouri specific report along with the executive summary for $50, and can include the national data report for an additional $25 -- a total of $75. Non-members can purchase the state specific report and executive summary for $100, and the full set of reports for $125.  Click below to order.  

Order the 2019 Compensation and Benefits Report