Minnesota · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025
Manufacturing in Minnesota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 315,300 people in Minnesota across roughly 8,436 establishments, with average annual pay of $86,640.
Employment in Manufacturing in Minnesota declined 8.0% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Minnesota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.32). Quarterly values, full industry 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.
- 315,300Employment, 2025
- 8,436Establishments
- $86,640Avg. annual pay
- 10.7%Share of Minnesota jobs
- 1.32Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 342,700; 2005 347,100; 2006 345,800; 2007 341,300; 2008 335,400; 2009 300,100; 2010 292,100; 2011 300,800; 2012 305,500; 2013 307,200; 2014 311,900; 2015 317,300; 2016 317,500; 2017 319,100; 2018 321,900; 2019 324,000; 2020 309,000; 2021 313,000; 2022 323,700; 2023 325,900; 2024 320,300; 2025 315,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 315,339 | 8,436 | $86,643 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 320,273 | 8,551 | $83,280 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 325,880 | 8,651 | $78,977 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 323,723 | 8,549 | $76,949 | 3.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 313,043 | 8,247 | $74,602 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 309,006 | 8,284 | $70,870 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 324,039 | 8,266 | $68,081 | 0.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 321,930 | 8,488 | $67,095 | 0.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 319,054 | 8,370 | $65,732 | 0.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 317,526 | 8,145 | $63,753 | 0.1% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 21 shown
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Manufacturing in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Minnesota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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