Industrial Engineers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,594
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$27,066
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,810
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
$102,660
Kept after tax
$75,594
Worth in national money
$76,810
State rank
23
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Minnesota pays industrial engineers around $102,660 at the midpoint, 23 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 490 occupations Minnesota reports, industrial engineers comes in at 67 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $102,660, tax leaves $75,594, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $76,810 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $110,180, since top earners drag the number up.
- For industrial engineers the Minnesota median is $102,660, ranking 23 of 51 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.
- Industrial engineers ranks 67 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 industrial engineers — median $102,660 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $75,594 retained, $76,810 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $110,180 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Industrial Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $158,740 |
| This salary | $102,660 |
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 | $75,594 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,051 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,598 |
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 | $94,902 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,114 |
| 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 $102,660. The published range is $77,010 up to $158,740, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $75,594 take-home in Minnesota comes from $102,660. 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 67 of 490.
- Two cautions on $76,810, the adjusted value of that $102,660 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 67 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for industrial engineers in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $77,010 to $158,740. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $75,594, from $102,660, 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 67 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 23 of 51 for it.
- This $76,810 adjusted figure, worked from $102,660, 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 67 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 67 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $110,180, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $77,010 at the bottom tenth to $158,740 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $76,810.
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, $75,594 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $110,180. 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 ($77,010) and the ninetieth ($158,740) 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 $76,810 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 $75,594 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.