Legal Support Workers, All Other in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,604
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$21,336
24.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,659
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
$86,940
Kept after tax
$65,604
Worth in national money
$66,659
State rank
5
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for legal support workers, all other is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $86,940, putting the state 5 of 45 — about 20.57% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 490 occupations Minnesota reports, legal support workers, all other comes in at 114 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Minnesota costs about what the country costs, so from $86,940, take-home of $65,604 is worth roughly $66,659 in national money. The average comes to $95,190, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For legal support workers, all other, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $86,940, ranking 5 of 45 and running about 20.57% 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.
- Legal support workers, all other ranks 114 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.
- Price parity in Minnesota is near the national base, so for legal support workers, all other, whose median is $86,940, the adjusted figure of $66,659 differs little from $65,604 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $95,190 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Legal Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $86,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $138,760 |
| This salary | $86,940 |
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 | $65,604 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $69,992 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,368 |
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 | $80,702 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,415 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of legal support workers, all other in Minnesota earn under $86,940 and half over. The published range runs $64,360 at the tenth percentile to $138,760 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Minnesota's $65,604, worked from $86,940. 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 114 of 490.
- Two cautions on $66,659, the adjusted value of that $86,940 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 114 of 490 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal support workers, all other in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $64,360 to $138,760; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Minnesota take-home of $65,604, on $86,940 for work ranking 114 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 114 of 490 in the state.
- This $66,659 adjusted figure, worked from $86,940, 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 114 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 114 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 $95,190 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $64,360 at the bottom tenth to $138,760 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $66,659 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 $65,604 of this wage survives to your account.
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 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $95,190. 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 ($64,360) and the ninetieth ($138,760) 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 $66,659 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 $65,604 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.