Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,559
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$6,521
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,066
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
$38,080
Kept after tax
$31,559
Worth in national money
$32,066
State rank
13
of 50 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 $38,080, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 6.79% above the national middle.
- Against 490 occupations Minnesota publishes, this job lands at 455. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $38,080, tax leaves $31,559, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,066 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $39,650, since top earners drag the number up.
- Minnesota's median for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse is $38,080, about 6.79% above the national figure and 13 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Minnesota, this work ranks 455 of 490 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse — median $38,080 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $31,559 retained, $32,066 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $39,650 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,380 |
| This salary | $38,080 |
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 | $31,559 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,777 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,664 |
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 | $36,563 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,012 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,080 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,760 and the ninetieth is $50,380 — 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 $31,559, worked from $38,080. 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 455 of 490.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $32,066 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 455.
- The Minnesota median of $38,080 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,760 to $50,380. 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 $31,559, on $38,080 for work ranking 455 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 455 of 490 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $32,066, worked from $38,080, 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 455 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 $39,650, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $29,760 at the bottom tenth to $50,380 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $32,066 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Minnesota's own levy, $31,559 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $39,650. 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 ($29,760 to $50,380) 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 $32,066 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 $31,559 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.