Minnesota · 2025 pay

How much do Education Department (Minnesota) employees make?

Name: Education Department (Minnesota) employee pay 2025
Creator: PublicPayData

$101,078typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$69,153 – $116,154what most people earned

Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.

Minnesota Management and Budget publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.

Common jobs: Education Consultant 3 Education Supervisor 2 Education Finance Consultant 3

✓ Official data from Minnesota Management and BudgetMatches the agency's latest releasemn.gov ↗

How is pay spread across workers?

A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.

$68,954

$100,856

$116,151

$188,878

Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers

Typical workerright in the middle

Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers

Highest paidone person

Regular payOvertimeExtra pay

Is pay going up?

Yes. Typical pay went from $72,184 in 2016 to $101,078 in 2025 (+40%).

Typical payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+5.4%Typical pay went up from $95,856 to $101,078.
+9.0%Typical raise for the 438 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 43% got a raise of 10% or more.
92 new92 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 81 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
+40%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $72,184 to $101,078, while the number of people paid went up from 429 to 530.

The next update is expected after the fiscal year closes (usually by August).

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Education Department (Minnesota)

10years of
official data
2016–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$100,390
Overtime	$187
Extra pay	$279
Total for the year	$100,856

Average of the 27 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.

Official source: Minnesota Management and Budget, mn.gov ↗
Matches the agency's latest release

Worth knowing about pay at Education Department

What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.

+9.0%
People paid by Education Department in both 2024 and 2025 saw their pay change by a typical +9.0%. Typical pay across everyone paid changed +5.4%, as people joined and left.
Usual among the 16 other state agencies in Minnesota in our data: +7.2%.
Compares the same people in both years, so new hires and leavers do not move it. Overtime and hours worked count too.
+71%
Since 2016, total pay at Education Department went up 71% while the number of people paid went up 24%.
Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

Job	People	Typical pay	Most earn	Since 2024
Education Consultant 3	179	$113,570	$100k – $116k	▲ 8.6%
Education Supervisor 2	35	$132,868	$126k – $136k	▲ 7.0%
Education Finance Consultant 3	27	$114,482	$111k – $116k	▲ 9.5%
Nutrition Program Consultant	17	$83,617	$75k – $94k	▲ 12.3%
Office and Admin Specialist Senior	15	$58,063	$55k – $62k	▲ 1.9%
Education Director 1	12	$146,789	$144k – $151k	▲ 11.5%
Staff Attorney 2	12	$114,330	$37k – $117k	▲ 4.2%
State Program Admin Coordinator	12	$104,145	$92k – $111k	▼ 0.6%
State Program Admin Prin	12	$84,092	$73k – $98k	▼ 9.5%
Management Analyst 3	10	$70,005	$55k – $85k	▲ 10.4%
State Program Admin Manager	8	$117,081	$88k – $121k	▼ 0.3%
State Program Admin Intermediate	8	$59,779	$45k – $75k	▼ 13.7%
Office and Admin Specialist Int	8	$50,842	$37k – $53k	▲ 4.9%
State Program Admin Manager Senior	7	$124,877	$120k – $142k	▲ 3.4%
Management Analyst 4	6	$96,142	$78k – $102k	▲ 27.0%
Education Consultant 2	6	$84,803	$79k – $91k	▲ 0.2%
State Program Admin Senior	6	$77,311	$75k – $79k	new
State Program Admin Technician Specialist	6	$64,746	$47k – $68k	▼ 0.6%
Student Worker Para Prof Senior	6	$16,990	$4k – $26k	new
Accounting Officer Principal	5	$97,734	$93k – $98k	▲ 4.5%
Grants Specialist Coordinator	5	$94,452	$74k – $102k	▲ 4.5%
Education Finance Consultant 2	5	$91,160	$15k – $101k	new
Management Analyst 2	5	$66,306	$11k – $70k	new

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How many people earn what

Under $10k14
$10k – $30k34
$30k – $50k25
$50k – $70k63
$70k – $90k73
$90k – $110k107
$110k – $150k194
$150k or more20

Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.

Pay by department

Department	People	Typical pay
Compass Unit	16	$86,105
Data Practices and Analytics	14	$68,657
Sp Ed Rsch Pract&implemntation	12	$115,095
Sp Ed Interagency Partnerships	11	$108,240
Spec Ed Monitoring &assistance	11	$114,180
School Nutrition Business	11	$76,256
School Nutrition Programs	11	$76,357
Student Support Division	10	$114,933
Procurement/encumbrance	10	$74,545
Community Nutrition Programs	10	$87,132
Grants Services	10	$87,075
Due Process	10	$114,634

Common questions

How much does a Education Department (Minnesota) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $101,078 in 2025: half of the 530 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $69,153 and $116,154.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (99.0% of all pay), overtime (0.1%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.9%).

Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?

From Minnesota Management and Budget (mn.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the next update is expected after the fiscal year closes (usually by August).

"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals