Order Clerks in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,299
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$9,101
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,931
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
$48,400
Kept after tax
$39,299
Worth in national money
$39,931
State rank
10
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for order clerks is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $48,400, putting the state 10 of 48 — about 4.83% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 490 occupations Minnesota publishes, order clerks lands at 373. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,400, tax leaves $39,299, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,931 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $49,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- For order clerks, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $48,400, ranking 10 of 48 and running about 4.83% 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.
- Within Minnesota, this work ranks 373 of 490 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for order clerks — median $48,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,299 retained, $39,931 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $49,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Order Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,180 |
| This salary | $48,400 |
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 | $39,299 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,069 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,333 |
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 | $46,196 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,821 |
| 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 order clerks in Minnesota earn under $48,400 and half over. The published range runs $37,470 at the tenth percentile to $59,180 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 $39,299, worked from $48,400. 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 373 of 490.
- Two cautions on $39,931, the adjusted value of that $48,400 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 373 of 490 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for order clerks in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,470 to $59,180; 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 $39,299, on $48,400 for work ranking 373 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 373 of 490 in the state.
- This $39,931 adjusted figure, worked from $48,400, 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 373 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 373 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,470 at the bottom tenth to $59,180 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $39,931 in national terms.
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 $39,299 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,470 to $59,180) 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 $39,931 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 $39,299 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.