Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,840
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$26,060
26.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,028
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
$99,900
Kept after tax
$73,840
Worth in national money
$75,028
State rank
29
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Minnesota pays this job around $99,900 at the midpoint, 29 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Minnesota. It ranks 79 out of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $99,900, tax leaves $73,840, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $75,028 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $94,220.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay the Minnesota median is $99,900, ranking 29 of 48 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.
- Within Minnesota, electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay ranks 79 of 490 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay — median $99,900 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $73,840 retained, $75,028 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $94,220 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,730 |
| This salary | $99,900 |
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 | $73,840 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,110 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,382 |
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 | $92,409 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,815 |
| 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 $99,900. The published range is $68,080 up to $117,730, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $73,840, from $99,900, 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 79 of 490 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $75,028, the adjusted value of that $99,900 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 79 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $68,080 to $117,730. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $73,840 from $99,900. 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 79 of 490 locally.
- This $75,028 adjusted figure, worked from $99,900, 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 79 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 79 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $94,220 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $68,080 at the tenth percentile, $117,730 at the ninetieth.
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 $75,028 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 $73,840.
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 $94,220. 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 ($68,080 to $117,730) 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 $75,028 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 $73,840 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.