Minot, ND Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Minot, ND moved from $48,210 in May 2024 to $48,940 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Minot, ND sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 33500 · Minot, ND $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #298/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.0
- OCC-THIN 160 occs
- TOP-LEAD Computer and I… · $138K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH High Desert Utah…
- BOOK-MOST 159 rows · May 2025
Read with High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area (+$7 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 Minot, ND
Where Minot, ND already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers lead published employment inside Minot, ND's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 950 jobs · $93,120
- 2. First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 160 jobs · $91,210
- 3. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $130,770
- 4. Managers, All Other 120 jobs · $124,180
- 5. Construction Managers 120 jobs · $102,430
- 6. Project Management Specialists 90 jobs · $86,990
- 7. Management Analysts 90 jobs · $84,320
- 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 80 jobs · $107,730
- 9. Lawyers 70 jobs · $114,180
- 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $106,040
- 11. Civil Engineers 70 jobs · $99,460
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $130,820
- 13. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $89,800
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $138,290
- 15. Software Developers 50 jobs · $108,470
- 16. Compliance Officers 50 jobs · $91,560
- 17. Speech-Language Pathologists 50 jobs · $85,920
- 18. Social and Community Service Managers 50 jobs · $83,730
Occupations Tracked
160
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,871
employment-weighted, 159 complete rows
Top Salary
$138,290
Computer and Information Systems Managers
Cost of Living
87.0
13% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Minot, ND, 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 Minot, ND
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Gambling Dealers | $19,290 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,790 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,360 |
| Bartenders | $28,610 |
| Dishwashers | $29,070 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $30,030 |
| Childcare Workers | $30,040 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,080 |
| Cashiers | $30,570 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $30,930 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in ND
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 ND. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,871 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.