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

May 2024 → May 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.
C
Wage Scorecard
55/100
Minot, ND

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.

Wage Level C+
$48,940
All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)
Wage Growth F
+1.5%
Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)
Real Purchasing Power A
$56,235
Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 87.0, BEA)

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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KMinot, ND · this MSA: $57KMinot, ND · this MSA$57KHigh Desert Utah non… · near: $57KHigh Desert Utah non… · near$57KBlacksburg-Christian… · near: $57KBlacksburg-Christian… · near$57KKankakee, IL · near: $57KKankakee, IL · near$57KNortheast Maine nonm… · near: $57KNortheast Maine nonm… · near$57KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Minot, ND · this MSA $57K
High Desert Utah non… · near $57K
Blacksburg-Christian… · near $57K
Kankakee, IL · near $57K
Northeast Maine nonm… · near $57K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. General and Operations Managers 950 jobs · $93,120
  2. 2. First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 160 jobs · $91,210
  3. 3. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $130,770
  4. 4. Managers, All Other 120 jobs · $124,180
  5. 5. Construction Managers 120 jobs · $102,430
  6. 6. Project Management Specialists 90 jobs · $86,990
  7. 7. Management Analysts 90 jobs · $84,320
  8. 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 80 jobs · $107,730
  9. 9. Lawyers 70 jobs · $114,180
  10. 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $106,040
  11. 11. Civil Engineers 70 jobs · $99,460
  12. 12. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $130,820
  13. 13. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $89,800
  14. 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $138,290
  15. 15. Software Developers 50 jobs · $108,470
  16. 16. Compliance Officers 50 jobs · $91,560
  17. 17. Speech-Language Pathologists 50 jobs · $85,920
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $56,871 by the metro RPP gives $65,348 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

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.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 General and Operations Managers $93,120
2 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers $91,210
3 Financial Managers $130,770
4 Managers, All Other $124,180
5 Construction Managers $102,430
6 Project Management Specialists $86,990
7 Management Analysts $84,320
8 Medical and Health Services Managers $107,730
9 Lawyers $114,180
10 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $106,040
11 Civil Engineers $99,460
12 Nurse Practitioners $130,820
13 Dental Hygienists $89,800
14 Computer and Information Systems Managers $138,290
15 Software Developers $108,470
16 Compliance Officers $91,560
17 Speech-Language Pathologists $85,920
18 Social and Community Service Managers $83,730
19 Chief Executives $135,870
20 Physician Assistants $134,090
21 Sales Managers $120,070
22 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists $96,100
23 Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers $85,620
24 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $98,160
25 Occupational Therapists $89,670

Lowest Paying Jobs in Minot, ND

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.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Minot, ND wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 159 occupation rows is $56,871/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 87.0 puts local prices 13% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $65,348 in national-price terms. Page lists 160 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $105,144.
What is the highest paying job in Minot, ND?
The highest paying occupation in Minot, ND is Computer and Information Systems Managers with a median salary of $138,290/year. The second highest is Chief Executives at $135,870/year.
What jobs pay the least in Minot, ND?
The lowest paying occupation in Minot, ND is Gambling Dealers with a median salary of $19,290/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Minot, ND's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

What to do with this data

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.

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