Tile and Stone Setters in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,194
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$15,366
21.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,082
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
$70,560
Kept after tax
$55,194
Worth in national money
$56,082
State rank
5
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for tile and stone setters is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $70,560, putting the state 5 of 47 — about 26.7% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 221 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 $70,560 the take-home is $55,194, which is worth about $56,082 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $67,550, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For tile and stone setters, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $70,560, ranking 5 of 47 and running about 26.7% 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.
- Tile and stone setters ranks 221 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 tile and stone setters on its $70,560 median: $55,194 retained after tax becomes $56,082 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $67,550 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Tile and Stone Setters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $70,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,980 |
| This salary | $70,560 |
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 | $55,194 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $58,469 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,087 |
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 | $65,979 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,448 |
| 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 tile and stone setters in Minnesota earn under $70,560 and half over. The published range runs $52,070 at the tenth percentile to $81,980 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $55,194, from $70,560, 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 221 of 490 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,082 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 221.
- Figures are distribution medians for tile and stone setters in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $52,070 to $81,980; 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 $55,194 from $70,560. 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 221 of 490 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,082, worked from $70,560, 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 221 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 $67,550, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $52,070 and the top tenth $81,980, so most people doing this work in Minnesota sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $56,082 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, $55,194 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 $67,550. 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 ($52,070 to $81,980) 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 $56,082 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 $55,194 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.