Electrical Engineers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,947
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$29,563
27.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,233
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
$109,510
Kept after tax
$79,947
Worth in national money
$81,233
State rank
27
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Minnesota sits in the middle of the pack for electrical engineers. The median is $109,510, ranking 27 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 490 occupations Minnesota reports, electrical engineers comes in at 43 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $109,510, tax leaves $79,947, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $81,233 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $118,190, since top earners drag the number up.
- Minnesota occupies the middle band for electrical engineers: a median of $109,510, ranking 27 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Electrical engineers ranks 43 of 490 occupations by median in Minnesota, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electrical engineers — median $109,510 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $79,947 retained, $81,233 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $118,190 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $78,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $109,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,030 |
| This salary | $109,510 |
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 | $79,947 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $85,870 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,134 |
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 | $101,090 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,854 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $109,510 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $78,750 and the ninetieth is $167,030 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $79,947 take-home in Minnesota comes from $109,510. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 43 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $81,233, the adjusted value of that $109,510 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 43 of 490 in the state.
- The Minnesota median of $109,510 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $78,750 to $167,030. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $79,947, from $109,510, assumes a single Minnesota filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 43 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $81,233 — the adjusted value of that $109,510 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 43 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 $118,190 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $78,750, the highest tenth $167,030, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $81,233 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 $79,947.
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 $118,190. 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 ($78,750) and the ninetieth ($167,030) 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 $81,233 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 $79,947 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.