Veterinarians in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$94,631
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$38,479
28.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$96,153
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
$133,110
Kept after tax
$94,631
Worth in national money
$96,153
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for veterinarians is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $133,110, putting the state 10 of 49 — about 2.31% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 490 occupations Minnesota reports, veterinarians comes in at 25 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $133,110, tax leaves $94,631, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $96,153 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $146,230, since top earners drag the number up.
- For veterinarians, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $133,110, ranking 10 of 49 and running about 2.31% 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.
- Veterinarians ranks 25 of 490 occupations by median in Minnesota, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for veterinarians — median $133,110 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $94,631 retained, $96,153 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $146,230 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Veterinarians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $83,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $133,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $217,580 |
| This salary | $133,110 |
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 | $94,631 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $102,247 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,066 |
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 | $121,967 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,845 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $133,110 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $83,280 and the ninetieth is $217,580 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Minnesota's $94,631, worked from $133,110. 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 25 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $96,153, the adjusted value of that $133,110 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 25 of 490 in the state.
- The Minnesota median of $133,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $83,280 to $217,580. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Minnesota take-home of $94,631, on $133,110 for work ranking 25 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 25 of 490 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $96,153 — the adjusted value of that $133,110 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 25 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $146,230 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $83,280 at the bottom tenth to $217,580 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $96,153 in national terms.
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, $94,631 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $146,230. 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 ($83,280) and the ninetieth ($217,580) 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 $96,153 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 $94,631 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.