Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,546
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$11,704
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,295
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
$58,250
Kept after tax
$46,546
Worth in national money
$47,295
State rank
22
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Minnesota pays this job around $58,250 at the midpoint, 22 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 301 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $58,250, tax leaves $46,546, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,295 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,000, since top earners drag the number up.
- For title examiners, abstractors, and searchers the Minnesota median is $58,250, ranking 22 of 47 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers ranks 301 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.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers — median $58,250 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $46,546 retained, $47,295 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,000 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,530 |
| This salary | $58,250 |
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 | $46,546 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,984 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,113 |
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 | $55,216 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,765 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,250 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,240 and the ninetieth is $77,530 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $46,546 take-home in Minnesota comes from $58,250. 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 301 of 490.
- Two cautions on $47,295, the adjusted value of that $58,250 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 301 of 490 locally.
- The Minnesota median of $58,250 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,240 to $77,530. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $46,546, from $58,250, 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 301 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 47 for it.
- This $47,295 adjusted figure, worked from $58,250, 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 301 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 301 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $60,000, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $49,240 and the top tenth $77,530, so most people doing this work in Minnesota sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $47,295.
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, $46,546 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 $60,000. 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 ($49,240 to $77,530) 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 $47,295 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 $46,546 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.