Architectural and Civil Drafters in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,271
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$15,409
21.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,160
Minnesota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Minnesota — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$70,680
Kept after tax
$55,271
Worth in national money
$56,160
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Minnesota pays this job a middle wage of $70,680, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 6.85% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 220 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $70,680 the take-home is $55,271, which is worth about $56,160 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $72,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Minnesota's median for architectural and civil drafters is $70,680, about 6.85% above the national figure and 13 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Architectural and civil drafters ranks 220 of 490 occupations in Minnesota by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Minnesota's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for architectural and civil drafters on its $70,680 median: $55,271 retained after tax becomes $56,160 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $72,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Architectural and Civil Drafters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $70,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,110 |
| This salary | $70,680 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Minnesota | $55,271 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $58,553 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,096 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $66,074 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,474 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Minnesota earn less than $70,680. The published range is $52,000 up to $98,110, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Minnesota's $55,271, worked from $70,680. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 220 of 490.
- Two cautions on $56,160, the adjusted value of that $70,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Minnesota. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 220 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for architectural and civil drafters in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $52,000 to $98,110. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Minnesota take-home of $55,271, on $70,680 for work ranking 220 of 490 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 220 of 490 in the state.
- This $56,160 adjusted figure, worked from $70,680, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 220 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 220 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $52,000 at the tenth percentile, $98,110 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Minnesota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $56,160 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Minnesota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $55,271 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($52,000 to $98,110) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Minnesota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Minnesota's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $56,160 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $55,271 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Minnesota income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.