Parking Attendants in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,436
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$5,814
16.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,910
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
$35,250
Kept after tax
$29,436
Worth in national money
$29,910
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Minnesota is one of the better-paying states for parking attendants. The middle earner takes $35,250, which ranks 14 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 0.28% above the national middle.
- Against 490 occupations Minnesota publishes, parking attendants lands at 473. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $35,250, tax leaves $29,436, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $29,910 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $35,910, since top earners drag the number up.
- Minnesota ranks 14 of 51 states publishing a median for parking attendants, at $35,250 — about 0.28% 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.
- Within Minnesota, this work ranks 473 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 parking attendants — median $35,250 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $29,436 retained, $29,910 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $35,910 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Parking Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,830 |
| This salary | $35,250 |
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 | $29,436 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,481 |
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 | $33,922 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,791 |
| 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 parking attendants in Minnesota earn under $35,250 and half over. The published range runs $27,150 at the tenth percentile to $45,830 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $29,436 take-home in Minnesota comes from $35,250. 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 473 of 490.
- Two cautions on $29,910, the adjusted value of that $35,250 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 473 of 490 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for parking attendants in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $27,150 to $45,830; 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.
- Retained pay of $29,436, from $35,250, 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 473 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 51 for it.
- This $29,910 adjusted figure, worked from $35,250, 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 473 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 473 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $27,150 at the tenth percentile, $45,830 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $29,910.
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 $29,436 of this wage survives to your account.
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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($27,150 to $45,830) 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 $29,910 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 $29,436 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.