Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,287
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$9,453
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,935
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
$49,740
Kept after tax
$40,287
Worth in national money
$40,935
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $49,740, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 7.15% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 358 among 490 occupations Minnesota publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $49,740 the take-home is $40,287, which is worth about $40,935 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $53,070, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For industrial truck and tractor operators, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $49,740, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 7.15% 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 358 of 490 in Minnesota places industrial truck and tractor operators 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.
- Minnesota's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for industrial truck and tractor operators on its $49,740 median: $40,287 retained after tax becomes $40,935 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $53,070 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,870 |
| This salary | $49,740 |
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 | $40,287 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,146 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,436 |
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 | $47,426 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,946 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,740 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,940 and the ninetieth is $73,870 — 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 $40,287, worked from $49,740. 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 358 of 490.
- Two cautions on $40,935, the adjusted value of that $49,740 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 358 of 490 locally.
- The Minnesota median of $49,740 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,940 to $73,870. 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 $40,287, on $49,740 for work ranking 358 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 358 of 490 in the state.
- This $40,935 adjusted figure, worked from $49,740, 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 358 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 358 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 $53,070 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,940 and the top tenth $73,870, so most people doing this work in Minnesota sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Minnesota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $40,935 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Minnesota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,287 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $53,070. 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 ($39,940 to $73,870) 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 $40,935 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 $40,287 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.