Property Appraisers and Assessors in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,354
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$20,046
24.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,373
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
$83,400
Kept after tax
$63,354
Worth in national money
$64,373
State rank
7
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $83,400, putting the state 7 of 50 — about 22.72% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 125 among 490 occupations Minnesota publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $83,400, tax leaves $63,354, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $64,373 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $94,700, since top earners drag the number up.
- For property appraisers and assessors, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $83,400, ranking 7 of 50 and running about 22.72% 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.
- Position 125 of 490 in Minnesota places property appraisers and assessors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for property appraisers and assessors — median $83,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $63,354 retained, $64,373 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $94,700 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Property Appraisers and Assessors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $158,750 |
| This salary | $83,400 |
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 | $63,354 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,502 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,091 |
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 | $77,504 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,032 |
| 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 property appraisers and assessors in Minnesota earn under $83,400 and half over. The published range runs $53,970 at the tenth percentile to $158,750 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $63,354, from $83,400, 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 125 of 490 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $64,373, the adjusted value of that $83,400 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 125 of 490 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for property appraisers and assessors in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $53,970 to $158,750; 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.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $63,354 from $83,400. 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 125 of 490 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $64,373 — the adjusted value of that $83,400 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 125 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $94,700, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $53,970 and the top tenth $158,750 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $64,373.
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 $63,354 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $94,700. 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 ($53,970) and the ninetieth ($158,750) 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 $64,373 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 $63,354 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.