Interior Designers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,916
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$16,354
22.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,832
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
$73,270
Kept after tax
$56,916
Worth in national money
$57,832
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for interior designers is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $73,270, putting the state 10 of 49 — about 9.05% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 210 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $73,270, tax leaves $56,916, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $57,832 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $72,420.
- For interior designers, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $73,270, ranking 10 of 49 and running about 9.05% 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.
- Interior designers ranks 210 of 490 occupations in Minnesota by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for interior designers — median $73,270 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $56,916 retained, $57,832 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $72,420 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Interior Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,010 |
| This salary | $73,270 |
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 | $56,916 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,375 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,299 |
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 | $68,353 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,938 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,270 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $41,280 and the ninetieth is $103,010 — 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 $56,916, worked from $73,270. 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 210 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $57,832, the adjusted value of that $73,270 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 210 of 490 in the state.
- The Minnesota median of $73,270 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $41,280 to $103,010. 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 $56,916, on $73,270 for work ranking 210 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 210 of 490 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $57,832 — the adjusted value of that $73,270 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 210 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $41,280, the highest tenth $103,010, 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 $57,832 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 $56,916.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($41,280) and the ninetieth ($103,010) 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 $57,832 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 $56,916 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.