Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,547
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$12,423
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,328
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
$60,970
Kept after tax
$48,547
Worth in national money
$49,328
State rank
6
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $60,970, putting the state 6 of 51 — about 11.08% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 278 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $60,970, tax leaves $48,547, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,328 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $65,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- For automotive body and related repairers, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $60,970, ranking 6 of 51 and running about 11.08% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Automotive body and related repairers ranks 278 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.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for automotive body and related repairers — median $60,970 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,547 retained, $49,328 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $65,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,900 |
| This salary | $60,970 |
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 | $48,547 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,169 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,329 |
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 | $57,706 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,026 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $60,970 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $41,500 and the ninetieth is $92,900 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $48,547, from $60,970, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 278 of 490 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,328, the adjusted value of that $60,970 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 278 of 490 locally.
- The Minnesota median of $60,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $41,500 to $92,900. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,547 from $60,970. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 278 of 490 locally.
- This $49,328 adjusted figure, worked from $60,970, 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 278 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 278 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 $65,530, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $41,500, the highest tenth $92,900, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $49,328 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $48,547.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $65,530. 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 ($41,500) and the ninetieth ($92,900) 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 $49,328 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 $48,547 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.