Minnesota state employee salaries

Minnesota’s state payroll, FY2026

69,125

People paid

One per person in MMB's FY2026 earnings, every position and agency.

$76,207

Median pay

The year's pay, over the 69,125 paid more than zero.

$5.3 billion

Total payroll

$5,293,567,368

Regular wages $5.0 billion, overtime $128.9 million.

18,43326.7% of those paid

Paid $100,000 or more

In FY2026, from every position.

The middle half of the 69,125 paid in FY2026 received $51,893 to $102,634; a tenth received more than $127,842.

Every agency, FY2026

The state median for FY2026 is $76,207. A person with positions in two agencies is counted in both, so the agencies do not add up to the state.

The highest paid, FY2026

Every year’s file

MMB publishes one workbook a fiscal year, each with an HR sheet (every position held on June 30) and an Earnings sheet (one row per person paid). This is what each held when this site read it: the rows of each sheet, how its pay is read, and the numbering its people are in, with MMB’s own download of the year’s workbook.

The person pages, by numbering

MMB reissued every number at FY2016, FY2018 and FY2020, so a page is one number within one numbering, never joined across them. A page is indexed when its number is in more than one year of its numbering or was paid $100,000 or more in one; every other page is reachable from its agency’s list. 350,069 person pages in all, FY2011 to FY2026.

Minnesota elsewhere on the Factbook

• Reported crimeCrime and justice

  Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

• Most dangerous cities in MinnesotaCrime and justice

  What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

• Prison populationCrime and justice

  People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

• Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

  Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

• Hate crimeCrime and justice

  Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

• Federal obligationsFederal spending

  What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

• Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

  How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

• Payments to doctorsHealth

  What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

• Immigration courtsImmigration and the border

  The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

• Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

  What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

• Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

  The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

• Public schoolsSchools

  Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

• Banks and credit unionsBanks and credit unions

  The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

• Low-income housingLow-income housing

  The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

• College athleticsSports

  Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

• Federal civilian workforceFederal salaries

  Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

• The Minnesota Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

  Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.