Highway Maintenance Workers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,150
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$13,000
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,957
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
$63,150
Kept after tax
$50,150
Worth in national money
$50,957
State rank
4
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for highway maintenance workers is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $63,150, putting the state 4 of 49 — about 25.65% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Highway maintenance workers ranks 250 among 490 occupations Minnesota publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $63,150, tax leaves $50,150, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,957 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $60,280.
- For highway maintenance workers, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $63,150, ranking 4 of 49 and running about 25.65% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 250 of 490 in Minnesota places highway maintenance workers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for highway maintenance workers — median $63,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,150 retained, $50,957 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,280 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Highway Maintenance Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,650 |
| This salary | $63,150 |
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 | $50,150 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,921 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,503 |
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 | $59,702 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,236 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,150 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,660 and the ninetieth is $72,650 — 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 $50,150, worked from $63,150. 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 250 of 490.
- Two cautions on $50,957, the adjusted value of that $63,150 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 250 of 490 locally.
- The Minnesota median of $63,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,660 to $72,650. 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 $50,150, on $63,150 for work ranking 250 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 250 of 490 in the state.
- This $50,957 adjusted figure, worked from $63,150, 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 250 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 250 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 $60,280 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 — $45,660 at the tenth percentile, $72,650 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 $50,957 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, $50,150 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $60,280. 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 ($45,660 to $72,650) 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 $50,957 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 $50,150 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.