Mankato, MN Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Mankato, MN moved from $48,060 in May 2024 to $49,530 in May 2025 (+3.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Mankato, MN sits -0.0 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Mankato, MN
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $37,560 here versus $35,800 nationally (+4.9%; 3,170metro-area jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$37,560 in Mankato, MN sits 4.9% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,170 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Mankato, MN; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 31860 · Mankato, MN $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #202/528
- RPP-LOW 91.0
- OCC-MID 246 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $422K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Vineland, NJ
- BOOK-MOST 234 rows · May 2025
Read with Vineland, NJ (+$25 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 Mankato, MN
Where Mankato, MN already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Mankato, MN's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $111,560
- 2. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $134,710
- 3. Sales Managers 170 jobs · $131,330
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $138,580
- 5. Lawyers 140 jobs · $130,020
- 6. Chief Executives 120 jobs · $171,460
- 7. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $157,010
- 8. Physicians, All Other 80 jobs · $421,630
- 9. Marketing Managers 70 jobs · $155,360
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $142,390
- 11. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $142,020
- 12. Administrative Services Managers 70 jobs · $113,570
- 13. Dentists, General 60 jobs · $207,000
- 14. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $147,830
- 15. Facilities Managers 60 jobs · $109,160
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $158,750
- 17. Veterinarians 50 jobs · $134,110
- 18. Civil Engineers 50 jobs · $128,220
Occupations Tracked
246
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,860
employment-weighted, 234 complete rows
Top Salary
$421,630
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
91.0
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Mankato, MN, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Mankato, MN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,330 |
| Bartenders | $24,710 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,730 |
| Sales and Related Workers, All Other | $28,930 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $29,060 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $29,640 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,000 |
| Dishwashers | $30,690 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $31,760 |
| Bakers | $33,080 |
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 ($59,860 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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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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.