Medical Records Specialists in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,959
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$12,571
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,746
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
$61,530
Kept after tax
$48,959
Worth in national money
$49,746
State rank
7
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Minnesota is one of the better-paying states for medical records specialists. The middle earner takes $61,530, which ranks 7 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 20.32% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 267 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 $61,530 the take-home is $48,959, which is worth about $49,746 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $63,570, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Minnesota ranks 7 of 51 states publishing a median for medical records specialists, at $61,530 — about 20.32% 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 records specialists ranks 267 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 records specialists on its $61,530 median: $48,959 retained after tax becomes $49,746 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $63,570 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Records Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,020 |
| This salary | $61,530 |
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 | $48,959 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,619 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,374 |
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 | $58,219 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,080 |
| 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 $61,530. The published range is $48,120 up to $83,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $48,959, from $61,530, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 267 of 490 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,746, the adjusted value of that $61,530 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 267 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for medical records specialists in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,120 to $83,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,959 from $61,530. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 267 of 490 locally.
- This $49,746 adjusted figure, worked from $61,530, 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 267 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 267 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 $63,570 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,120 at the tenth percentile, $83,020 at the ninetieth.
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 $49,746 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $48,959 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 $63,570. 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 ($48,120 to $83,020) 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 $49,746 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 $48,959 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.