Highest Paying Jobs in Minnesota

Top 100 occupations ranked by median annual salary, Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025

Highest Salary

$708,340

Radiologists

Top 25 Average

$347,813

median salary

$100K+ Jobs

100

occupations

Occupations

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with wage data

This ranking surfaces the 100 highest-paying occupations in Minnesota by BLS OEWS state median salary, drawn from the May 2025 release. At the top, Radiologists pays a state median of $708,340, +68% above the national median of $420,860 for the same role. Of the 100 tracked positions, 100 pay above $100,000 per year in Minnesota - a useful threshold for separating specialist professional roles from mid-tier employment. The top-10 average sits at $493,038, giving a sense of what elite specialists inside this state actually clear.

The "Difference" column compares each state median to the corresponding national median for the same SOC code, making pay premiums and discounts immediately visible. In this list, 70 of 100 occupations pay above the national median in Minnesota, which usually signals one of three things: a local concentration of specialized employers (finance hubs, tech clusters, research universities, federal agencies), a cost-of-living adjustment baked into state-wide wage scales, or scarce in-state talent supply bidding up competitive roles. Occupations paying below the national median are not necessarily bad news, they often reflect lower cost of living in the state or industries where Minnesota is not a concentrated employer.

Rankings like this show ceiling-potential by specialty, but they don't tell you the odds of landing one of those roles. Pair this table with the employment column (how many workers the state actually employs in each occupation) and the growth projections on each occupation's national page to see whether the field is expanding or contracting. BLS wages exclude benefits, bonuses, and overtime, especially distorting for top-paying roles where equity and performance compensation can represent 30-50% of total pay. Use this leaderboard to shortlist careers worth exploring in Minnesota, then drill into each row's linked profile to check percentile spread, typical education, metro-level variation, and whether projected openings match your timeline.

#	Occupation	State Median	National	Difference	Employment
1	Radiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$708,340	$420,860	+68% above	440
2	Dermatologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$625,790	$328,730	+90% above	260
3	Surgeons, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$568,150	$414,010	+37% above	910
4	Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$537,830	$358,550	+50% above	320
5	Anesthesiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$496,510	$391,490	+27% above	870
6	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$475,250	$352,220	+35% above	40
7	Emergency Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$390,940	$335,550	+17% above	990
8	Neurologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$381,670	$248,560	+54% above	310
9	General Internal Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$373,700	$256,560	+46% above	2,270
10	Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$372,200	$300,080	+24% above	180
11	Physicians, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$367,320	$265,930	+38% above	5,350
12	Physicians, Pathologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$362,270	$312,400	+16% above	550
13	Psychiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$336,410	$281,870	+19% above	580
14	Obstetricians and Gynecologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$321,910	$292,910	+10% above	750
15	Family Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$280,030	$244,180	+15% above	1,820
16	Nurse Anesthetists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$266,190	$236,590	+13% above	2,130
17	Podiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$261,180	$160,300	+63% above	130
18	Pediatricians, General Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$226,660	$210,040	+8% above	890
19	Dentists, General Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$219,200	$170,950	+28% above	2,370
20	Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$211,470	$232,140	9% below	2,960
21	Chief Executives Management Occupations	$195,670	$213,990	9% below	6,740
22	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates Legal Occupations	$190,110	$153,990	+23% above	590
23	Air Traffic Controllers Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$176,840	$148,080	+19% above	680
24	Computer and Information Systems Managers Management Occupations	$176,380	$175,140	+1% above	10,970
25	Marketing Managers Management Occupations	$173,300	$166,790	+4% above	8,500
26	Architectural and Engineering Managers Management Occupations	$172,130	$171,270	+1% above	4,580
27	Law Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$171,790	$128,500	+34% above	80
28	Physicists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$171,220	$172,250	1% below	110
29	Financial Managers Management Occupations	$163,410	$166,570	2% below	16,680
30	Compensation and Benefits Managers Management Occupations	$163,390	$149,230	+9% above	360
31	Pharmacists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$159,740	$140,910	+13% above	6,310
32	Aerospace Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$159,060	$134,960	+18% above	140
33	Optometrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$158,700	$136,570	+16% above	710
34	Lawyers Legal Occupations	$155,140	$159,670	3% below	12,380
35	Human Resources Managers Management Occupations	$153,770	$149,280	+3% above	4,370
36	Managers, All Other Management Occupations	$152,600	$141,900	+8% above	4,160
37	Sales Managers Management Occupations	$151,670	$148,270	+2% above	11,240
38	Physical Scientists, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$147,890	$122,570	+21% above	540
39	Purchasing Managers Management Occupations	$144,810	$148,080	2% below	1,340
40	Physician Assistants Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$141,190	$135,880	+4% above	3,660
41	Public Relations Managers Management Occupations	$139,040	$146,910	5% below	1,230
42	Administrative Services Managers Management Occupations	$137,290	$114,130	+20% above	7,560
43	Natural Sciences Managers Management Occupations	$136,450	$167,220	18% below	1,530
44	Computer and Information Research Scientists Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$135,850	$140,300	3% below	30
45	Nurse Midwives Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$134,810	$134,040	+1% above	410
46	Computer Hardware Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$134,300	$161,740	17% below	770
47	Computer Network Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$133,270	$134,050	1% below	2,040
48	Nurse Practitioners Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$133,260	$132,300	+1% above	7,780
49	Veterinarians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$133,110	$130,100	+2% above	2,140
50	Database Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$133,050	$139,500	5% below	1,240
51	Materials Scientists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$132,160	$117,790	+12% above	290
52	Training and Development Managers Management Occupations	$131,680	$133,000	1% below	760
53	Information Security Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$130,710	$129,180	+1% above	2,680
54	Software Developers Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$130,050	$135,980	4% below	35,890
55	Data Scientists Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$128,800	$120,230	+7% above	4,020
56	Actuaries Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$128,100	$130,000	1% below	1,170
57	Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Construction and Extraction Occupations	$128,020	$109,910	+16% above	550
58	Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$127,730	$109,370	+17% above	1,230
59	Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary Management Occupations	$127,000	$105,870	+20% above	4,120
60	Advertising and Promotions Managers Management Occupations	$126,920	$133,660	5% below	110
61	Fundraising Managers Management Occupations	$126,920	$125,470	+1% above	680
62	Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers Legal Occupations	$126,360	$117,860	+7% above	120
63	Industrial Production Managers Management Occupations	$123,580	$126,060	2% below	5,080
64	Construction Managers Management Occupations	$123,400	$114,990	+7% above	5,800
65	Medical and Health Services Managers Management Occupations	$122,700	$123,860	1% below	11,350
66	Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$120,050	$115,160	+4% above	220
67	First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives Protective Service Occupations	$118,750	$106,040	+12% above	2,870
68	Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Management Occupations	$118,180	$107,230	+10% above	4,030
69	Agricultural Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$115,940	$98,590	+18% above	60
70	Environmental Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$115,750	$107,110	+8% above	1,080
71	Psychologists, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$115,650	$110,840	+4% above	330
72	Electronics Engineers, Except Computer Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$112,390	$130,220	14% below	1,200
73	Facilities Managers Management Occupations	$109,720	$106,660	+3% above	3,000
74	Art Directors Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations	$109,700	$114,850	4% below	920
75	Electrical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$109,510	$120,630	9% below	3,150
76	Engineers, All Other Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$108,850	$122,930	11% below	1,290
77	Economics Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$108,460	$123,920	12% below	250
78	Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$108,390	$109,270	1% below	560
79	Chemical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$107,670	$125,040	14% below	210
80	Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling Management Occupations	$107,660	$79,520	+35% above	480
81	Nuclear Medicine Technologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$107,380	$101,370	+6% above	200
82	Computer Programmers Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$107,250	$100,390	+7% above	2,070
83	Physics Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$107,240	$100,310	+7% above	250
84	Clinical and Counseling Psychologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$107,030	$100,580	+6% above	1,290
85	Emergency Management Directors Management Occupations	$106,880	$93,330	+15% above	190
86	Computer Systems Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$106,350	$105,850	same as	11,330
87	Atmospheric and Space Scientists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$106,270	$99,070	+7% above	50
88	Materials Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$106,220	$112,860	6% below	150
89	Insulation Workers, Mechanical Construction and Extraction Occupations	$105,670	$58,340	+81% above	250
90	Power Distributors and Dispatchers Production Occupations	$105,630	$106,730	1% below	100
91	Financial Risk Specialists Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$105,420	$117,330	10% below	1,190
92	Economists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$105,120	$124,720	16% below	500
93	Education Administrators, Postsecondary Management Occupations	$104,740	$104,590	same as	2,110
94	Epidemiologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$104,460	$87,220	+20% above	310
95	Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$104,380	$93,250	+12% above	430
96	Financial Examiners Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$104,260	$94,160	+11% above	1,280
97	Survey Researchers Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$104,220	$69,460	+50% above	340
98	Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations	$104,180	$95,320	+9% above	2,190
99	Dental Hygienists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$103,970	$98,100	+6% above	4,110
100	Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$103,510	$107,310	4% below	3,050

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About This Data

All salary data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, May 2025. State-level data reflects wages for workers employed in Minnesota. The "Difference" column shows how Minnesota pay compares to the national median for that occupation.

Every figure on WageDex is rendered directly from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, no number is typed in by an editor. These figures are computed directly from BLS OEWS state-level wage data. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2025.

Compiled by WageDex Editorial, Occupational Wages Editorial Team · May 15, 2026

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