Communications Teachers, Postsecondary in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,341
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$20,039
24.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,360
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
$83,380
Kept after tax
$63,341
Worth in national money
$64,360
State rank
11
of 48 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 $83,380, ranking 11 of 48 states and sitting about 6.11% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 127 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 $83,380, tax leaves $63,341, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $64,360 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $85,970, since top earners drag the number up.
- Minnesota's median for communications teachers, postsecondary is $83,380, about 6.11% above the national figure and 11 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Communications teachers, postsecondary ranks 127 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 communications teachers, postsecondary — median $83,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $63,341 retained, $64,360 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $85,970 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,430 |
| This salary | $83,380 |
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 | $63,341 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,488 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,090 |
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 | $77,486 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,030 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $83,380 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,480 and the ninetieth is $108,430 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Minnesota's $63,341, worked from $83,380. 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 127 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $64,360, the adjusted value of that $83,380 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 127 of 490 in the state.
- The Minnesota median of $83,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,480 to $108,430. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Minnesota take-home of $63,341, on $83,380 for work ranking 127 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 127 of 490 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $64,360 — the adjusted value of that $83,380 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 127 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 $85,970, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $59,480 at the tenth percentile, $108,430 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $64,360.
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 $63,341 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $85,970. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($59,480 to $108,430) 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 $64,360 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 $63,341 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.