Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,554
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$11,706
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,302
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
$58,260
Kept after tax
$46,554
Worth in national money
$47,302
State rank
1
of 47 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 $58,260, ranking 1 of 47 states and sitting about 25.1% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 300 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 $58,260 the take-home is $46,554, which is worth about $47,302 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $57,140, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Minnesota's median for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders is $58,260, about 25.1% above the national figure and 1 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 300 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 cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders on its $58,260 median: $46,554 retained after tax becomes $47,302 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $57,140 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,160 |
| This salary | $58,260 |
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 | $46,554 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,992 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,114 |
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 | $55,225 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,766 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,260 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,010 and the ninetieth is $65,160 — 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 $46,554, worked from $58,260. 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 300 of 490.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $47,302 uses one figure for the whole of Minnesota. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 490 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 300.
- The Minnesota median of $58,260 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,010 to $65,160. 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 $46,554, on $58,260 for work ranking 300 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 300 of 490 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $47,302, worked from $58,260, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Minnesota address, on work sitting at 300 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $47,010 at the tenth percentile, $65,160 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 $47,302.
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 $46,554.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,010 to $65,160) 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 $47,302 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 $46,554 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.