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

Employment in Manufacturing in Minnesota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 342,700 to 315,300.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

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

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025315,3398,436$86,643 1.5%pub.
2024320,2738,551$83,280 1.7%pub.
2023325,8808,651$78,977 0.7%pub.
2022323,7238,549$76,949 3.4%est. · 1.00
2021313,0438,247$74,602 1.3%pub.
2020309,0068,284$70,870 4.6%pub.
2019324,0398,266$68,081 0.7%est. · 1.00
2018321,9308,488$67,095 0.9%est. · 1.00
2017319,0548,370$65,732 0.5%est. · 1.00
2016317,5268,145$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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing47,83515.2%1.43pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing5,4821.7%0.88pub.
313Textile Mills3180.1%0.21pub.
314Textile Product Mills1,8650.6%1.06pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing7430.2%0.50pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing1,0400.3%2.32pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing12,8794.1%1.69pub.
322Paper Manufacturing7,8702.5%1.19pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities16,2545.1%2.48pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing2,1220.7%1.03pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing13,7564.4%0.82pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing15,8485.0%1.20pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing9,5953.0%1.23pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing5,1081.6%0.75pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing42,97513.6%1.59pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing34,87711.1%1.70pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing42,35213.4%2.24pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing6,8162.2%0.83pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing11,5793.7%0.34pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing8,7602.8%1.39pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing27,2688.6%2.36pub.

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.

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

Notes

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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.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.