State labor market
Minnesota labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Minnesota. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Minnesota hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Minnesota.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Minnesota workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Home health and personal care aides
128,680estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
72,860estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
54,480estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Minnesota figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$101,510/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$130,050/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$78,160/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$81,600/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$76,350/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$173,300/yr Minnesota median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Minnesota occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Minnesota workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Brickmasons and blockmasons$95,220/yr state median · 1,040 workers+53.3%vs. U.S. $62,120/yr
- Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters$94,410/yr state median · 10,720 workers+48.0%vs. U.S. $63,800/yr
- General internal medicine physicians$373,700/yr state median · 2,270 workers+45.7%vs. U.S. $256,560/yr
- Physicians, all other$367,320/yr state median · 5,350 workers+38.1%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Dental assistants$65,270/yr state median · 5,980 workers+35.8%vs. U.S. $48,070/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Firefighters$38,110/yr state median · 5,810 workers-35.7%vs. U.S. $59,280/yr
- Waiters and waitresses$25,470/yr state median · 37,630 workers-27.7%vs. U.S. $35,230/yr
- Bartenders$26,900/yr state median · 24,420 workers-21.7%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
- Computer occupations, all other$91,750/yr state median · 4,180 workers-21.3%vs. U.S. $116,580/yr
- Gambling dealers$27,190/yr state median · 1,370 workers-20.8%vs. U.S. $34,320/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Minnesota
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Minnesota. Links marked “Minnesota report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Minnesota report is available.
679 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.