Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,039
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$12,241
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,812
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
$60,280
Kept after tax
$48,039
Worth in national money
$48,812
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Minnesota is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $60,280, which ranks 14 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 12.15% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 279 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 $60,280, tax leaves $48,039, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $48,812 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- Minnesota ranks 14 of 51 states publishing a median for welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers, at $60,280 — about 12.15% 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.
- Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ranks 279 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 welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers — median $60,280 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,039 retained, $48,812 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,710 |
| This salary | $60,280 |
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 | $48,039 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,615 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,274 |
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 | $57,074 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,960 |
| 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 welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers in Minnesota earn under $60,280 and half over. The published range runs $45,690 at the tenth percentile to $75,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $48,039 take-home in Minnesota comes from $60,280. 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 279 of 490.
- Two cautions on $48,812, the adjusted value of that $60,280 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 279 of 490 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers in Minnesota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $45,690 to $75,710; 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 $48,039, from $60,280, 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 279 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 51 for it.
- This $48,812 adjusted figure, worked from $60,280, 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 279 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 279 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,690 at the bottom tenth to $75,710 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $48,812 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, $48,039 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,690 to $75,710) 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 $48,812 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 $48,039 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.