Duluth, MN-WI Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Duluth, MN-WI moved from $48,610 in May 2024 to $50,000 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Duluth, MN-WI sits -0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Duluth, MN-WI
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $23,150 here versus $35,230 nationally (-34.3%; 2,100metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $85,930 locally versus $105,770 nationally (-18.8%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$23,150 in Duluth, MN-WI sits 34.3% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,100 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$85,930 in Duluth, MN-WI sits 18.8% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,690 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$29,260 in Duluth, MN-WI sits 6.2% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,910 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$46,820 in Duluth, MN-WI sits 4.0% above the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,590 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Duluth, MN-WI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 20260 · Duluth, MN-WI $61K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #177/528
- RPP-LOW 88.8
- OCC-MID 372 occs
- TOP-LEAD Emergency Medi… · $434K
- EMP-MIX Nurse Practi…
- TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Orlando-Kissimme…
- BOOK-FULL 370 rows · May 2025
Read with Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL (+$17 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Duluth, MN-WI
Where Duluth, MN-WI already employs the upper wage tier
Nurse Practitioners and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Duluth, MN-WI's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Nurse Practitioners 420 jobs · $136,530
- 2. Financial Managers 420 jobs · $126,800
- 3. Pharmacists 330 jobs · $154,860
- 4. Sales Managers 290 jobs · $113,360
- 5. Lawyers 260 jobs · $129,120
- 6. Construction Managers 250 jobs · $108,980
- 7. Chief Executives 240 jobs · $158,260
- 8. Physician Assistants 200 jobs · $135,860
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $149,710
- 10. Administrative Services Managers 180 jobs · $109,870
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 170 jobs · $123,090
- 12. Industrial Production Managers 170 jobs · $111,630
- 13. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $364,710
- 14. Family Medicine Physicians 110 jobs · $256,200
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $150,190
- 16. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $142,080
- 17. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $124,290
- 18. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $200,210
Occupations Tracked
372
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$60,799
employment-weighted, 370 complete rows
Top Salary
$434,190
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
88.8
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Duluth, MN-WI, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nurse Practitioners | $136,530 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $126,800 |
| 3 | Pharmacists | $154,860 |
| 4 | Sales Managers | $113,360 |
| 5 | Lawyers | $129,120 |
| 6 | Construction Managers | $108,980 |
| 7 | Chief Executives | $158,260 |
| 8 | Physician Assistants | $135,860 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $149,710 |
| 10 | Administrative Services Managers | $109,870 |
| 11 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $123,090 |
| 12 | Industrial Production Managers | $111,630 |
| 13 | Physicians, All Other | $364,710 |
| 14 | Family Medicine Physicians | $256,200 |
| 15 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $150,190 |
| 16 | Marketing Managers | $142,080 |
| 17 | Human Resources Managers | $124,290 |
| 18 | Dentists, General | $200,210 |
| 19 | Veterinarians | $126,650 |
| 20 | Natural Sciences Managers | $113,500 |
| 21 | Nurse Anesthetists | $260,760 |
| 22 | Environmental Engineers | $107,120 |
| 23 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $434,190 |
| 24 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $333,090 |
| 25 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $368,210 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Duluth, MN-WI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,150 |
| Bartenders | $23,540 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,900 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,000 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $27,420 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,260 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $29,710 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $29,910 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $29,960 |
| Dishwashers | $30,220 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MN
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside MN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($60,799 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Duluth, MN-WI wage figures in a real decision
- Emergency Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Duluth, MN-WI at $434,190/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Emergency Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $60,799 adjusts to about $68,492 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MN before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.