Medical Equipment Repairers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,342
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$16,598
22.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,265
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
$73,940
Kept after tax
$57,342
Worth in national money
$58,265
State rank
6
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Minnesota is one of the better-paying states for medical equipment repairers. The middle earner takes $73,940, which ranks 6 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 19.92% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 208 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $73,940 the take-home is $57,342, which is worth about $58,265 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $72,220, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Minnesota ranks 6 of 51 states publishing a median for medical equipment repairers, at $73,940 — about 19.92% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Medical equipment repairers ranks 208 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.
- Minnesota's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for medical equipment repairers on its $73,940 median: $57,342 retained after tax becomes $58,265 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $72,220 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,240 |
| This salary | $73,940 |
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 | $57,342 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,847 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,351 |
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 | $68,958 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,010 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,940 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,610 and the ninetieth is $103,240 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $57,342 take-home in Minnesota comes from $73,940. 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 208 of 490.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,265 uses one figure for the whole of Minnesota. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 490 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 208.
- The Minnesota median of $73,940 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,610 to $103,240. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $57,342, from $73,940, 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 208 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,265, worked from $73,940, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Minnesota address, on work sitting at 208 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,610, the highest tenth $103,240, 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 $58,265 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, $57,342 remains.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,610) and the ninetieth ($103,240) 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 $58,265 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 $57,342 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.