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.
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.
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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How to use Minot, ND wage figures in a real decision
- Computer and Information Systems Managers leads published medians in Minot, ND at $138,290/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Computer and Information Systems Managers
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,871 adjusts to about $65,348 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 87.0. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for ND 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.