Minnesota · All industries · Annual, 2025

Employment in Minnesota

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Employment, establishments and average pay across all industries in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, employers in Minnesota had about 2,943,300 people on their payrolls across roughly 213,512 establishments, with average annual pay of $76,950.

Total employment in Minnesota grew 8.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 2,943,300. Quarterly values, full industry and occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

2,943,300Employment, 2025
213,512Establishments
$76,950Avg. annual pay

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all industries · all ownerships

Employment by sector, 2025

NAICS sector · 20 sectors

Code	Sector	Employment	Share of Minnesota	LQ	Source
11	Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting	23,944	0.8%	1.02	pub.
21	Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction	5,592	0.2%	0.52	pub.
23	Construction	148,599	5.1%	0.93	pub.
31-33	Manufacturing	315,339	10.7%	1.32	pub.
22	Utilities	14,828	0.5%	0.89	pub.
42	Wholesale Trade	133,184	4.5%	1.17	pub.
44-45	Retail Trade	280,218	9.5%	0.96	pub.
48-49	Transportation and Warehousing	116,178	4.0%	0.81	pub.
51	Information	44,678	1.5%	0.79	pub.
52	Finance and Insurance	136,389	4.6%	1.14	pub.
53	Real Estate and Rental and Leasing	35,778	1.2%	0.77	pub.
54	Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	166,027	5.6%	0.81	pub.
55	Management of Companies and Enterprises	84,493	2.9%	1.72	pub.
56	Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services	121,719	4.1%	0.71	pub.
61	Educational Services	236,581	8.0%	0.94	pub.
62	Health Care and Social Assistance	556,905	18.9%	1.17	pub.
71	Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation	56,180	1.9%	0.98	pub.
72	Accommodation and Food Services	228,468	7.8%	0.85	pub.
81	Other Services (except Public Administration)	90,997	3.1%	1.02	pub.
92	Public Administration	147,231	5.0%	0.99	pub.

One public page per sector and per 3-digit subsector, annual, with the mark on every value. A sector name is a link where its page is built.

Last ten years

Annual · all industries · 10 years

Year	Employment	Estab.	Avg. annual pay	Change	Source
2025	2,943,327	213,512	$76,953	0.4%	pub.
2024	2,932,411	212,736	$74,221	1.0%	pub.
2023	2,904,510	208,347	$71,522	1.8%	pub.
2022	2,853,966	199,953	$69,724	2.9%	pub.
2021	2,774,861	185,787	$67,009	2.6%	pub.
2020	2,705,651	181,960	$64,191	6.8%	pub.
2019	2,902,225	178,313	$59,630	0.7%	pub.
2018	2,882,944	175,640	$58,007	0.9%	pub.
2017	2,856,105	167,815	$56,140	1.5%	pub.
2016	2,815,248	161,015	$54,297	1.4%	pub.

Employment by occupation group, 2025

SOC major group · 22 groups

Code	Occupation group	Employment	Share of Minnesota	LQ
11-0000	Management occupations	199,903	6.8%	0.96
13-0000	Business and financial operations occupations	205,517	7.0%	1.04
15-0000	Computer and mathematical occupations	97,535	3.3%	0.99
17-0000	Architecture and engineering occupations	57,684	2.0%	1.17
19-0000	Life, physical, and social science occupations	31,362	1.1%	1.13
21-0000	Community and social service occupations	62,154	2.1%	1.24
23-0000	Legal occupations	20,889	0.7%	0.85
25-0000	Educational instruction and library occupations	171,986	5.8%	1.00
27-0000	Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	35,928	1.2%	0.92
29-0000	Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	193,481	6.6%	1.05
31-0000	Healthcare support occupations	188,441	6.4%	1.27
33-0000	Protective service occupations	48,813	1.7%	0.69
35-0000	Food preparation and serving related occupations	240,720	8.2%	0.93
37-0000	Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	82,904	2.8%	0.96
39-0000	Personal care and service occupations	64,971	2.2%	1.06
41-0000	Sales and related occupations	245,329	8.3%	0.97
43-0000	Office and administrative support occupations	340,317	11.6%	0.98
45-0000	Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	3,835	0.1%	0.46
47-0000	Construction and extraction occupations	117,807	4.0%	0.97
49-0000	Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	103,916	3.5%	0.90
51-0000	Production occupations	201,827	6.9%	1.23
53-0000	Transportation and material moving occupations	228,009	7.8%	0.88

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data. They carry no published or estimated mark and no reliability score, because there is no published occupation census to mark them against.

Where these numbers come from

What this page shows

Every industry sector in the state, and every occupation group, with annual employment for the most recent complete year in the current vintage, and the state’s own total over every actual year. Figures are for all ownerships combined and are not seasonally adjusted. County figures, quarterly figures and the full industry and occupation depth are in the app; the nation and every state are free there.

Reading the table

A state value is DTG’s value for the state: the value the Bureau of Labor Statistics published where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate where QCEW withheld it. It is not a sum of the state’s counties. Where a value was withheld in QCEW it is marked as estimated rather than left blank, with its reliability score, and the legend beneath the table names the marker. Every figure on the page comes from one named vintage, stated beside the page, and does not change until the next release.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry, Occupation.

Notes

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