Audio and Video Technicians in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,273
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$10,527
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,969
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
$53,800
Kept after tax
$43,273
Worth in national money
$43,969
State rank
20
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Minnesota pays audio and video technicians around $53,800 at the midpoint, 20 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Audio and video technicians ranks 328 among 490 occupations Minnesota publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $53,800, tax leaves $43,273, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $43,969 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $58,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- For audio and video technicians the Minnesota median is $53,800, ranking 20 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 328 of 490 in Minnesota places audio and video technicians in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for audio and video technicians — median $53,800 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $43,273 retained, $43,969 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $58,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Audio and Video Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,320 |
| This salary | $53,800 |
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 | $43,273 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,408 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,759 |
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 | $51,143 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,337 |
| 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 $53,800. The published range is $34,960 up to $79,320, 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 $43,273, worked from $53,800. 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 328 of 490.
- Two cautions on $43,969, the adjusted value of that $53,800 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 328 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for audio and video technicians in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,960 to $79,320. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Minnesota take-home of $43,273, on $53,800 for work ranking 328 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 328 of 490 in the state.
- This $43,969 adjusted figure, worked from $53,800, 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 328 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 328 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $58,140, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $34,960 and the top tenth $79,320 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Minnesota is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,969 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Minnesota then takes its own share, leaving $43,273.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Minnesota is $58,140. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($34,960) and the ninetieth ($79,320) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $43,969 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 $43,273 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.