Minnesota · 2025 pay

How much do Employment & Economic Development Department (Minnesota) employees make?

Name: Employment & Economic Development Department (Minnesota) employee pay 2025
Creator: PublicPayData

$76,813typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$61,613 – $95,783what 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: Rehabilitation Couns Career Unemployment Ins Operator Analyst Workforce Development Representative

✓ 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.

$61,618

$76,905

$95,579

$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 $50,049 in 2016 to $76,813 in 2025 (+53%).

Typical payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+7.1%Typical pay went up from $71,753 to $76,813.
+8.5%Typical raise for the 1,382 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 36% got a raise of 10% or more.
345 new345 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 152 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
+53%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $50,049 to $76,813, while the number of people paid went up from 1,555 to 1,727.

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

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Employment & Economic Development Department (Minnesota)

10years of
official data
2016–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$75,578
Overtime	$590
Extra pay	$737
Total for the year	$76,905

Average of the 86 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

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

Job	People	Typical pay	Most earn	Since 2024
Rehabilitation Couns Career	158	$95,720	$87k – $98k	▲ 8.4%
Unemployment Ins Operator Analyst	133	$62,966	$56k – $76k	▲ 3.6%
Workforce Development Representative	96	$65,480	$54k – $74k	▲ 11.2%
Vocational Rehabilitation Technician Senior	87	$64,831	$62k – $66k	▲ 7.1%
Rehabilitation Representative	55	$69,781	$62k – $76k	▲ 11.2%
Disability Examiner	42	$58,065	$56k – $65k	▲ 8.9%
State Program Admin Coordinator	36	$102,406	$81k – $113k	▼ 4.9%
Rehabilitation Couns Senior	36	$77,017	$71k – $82k	▲ 11.0%
Disability Specialist	36	$68,757	$64k – $73k	▲ 6.2%
State Program Admin Manager	32	$115,635	$97k – $121k	▲ 8.2%
Workforce Development Specialist 3	32	$83,035	$69k – $91k	▲ 4.7%
Disability Program Specialist	29	$81,350	$78k – $91k	▲ 6.6%
State Program Admin Manager Senior	28	$127,766	$111k – $130k	▲ 4.9%
Rehabilitation Couns Supervisor	27	$116,533	$116k – $117k	▲ 6.8%
Economic Development Specialist	26	$95,269	$85k – $100k	▲ 0.4%
Rehabilitation Program Specialist 1	26	$82,666	$77k – $91k	▼ 3.1%
Management Analyst 3	26	$82,576	$72k – $85k	▲ 8.7%
State Program Admin Senior	26	$74,677	$54k – $85k	▼ 2.2%
Rehabilitation Program Specialist 3	24	$105,296	$103k – $105k	▲ 6.8%
Unemployment Ins Program Specialist 1	24	$78,842	$69k – $87k	▲ 2.2%
State Program Admin	23	$1,277	$1k – $52k	new
Unemployment Ins Supervisor	22	$96,254	$83k – $107k	▲ 4.5%
Vocational Rehabilitation Placmnt Coordinator	22	$72,076	$62k – $77k	▲ 5.0%
Workforce Development Specialist 1	21	$77,272	$67k – $83k	▲ 9.1%
Grants Specialist Coordinator	20	$87,118	$81k – $96k	▲ 6.8%
Rehabilitation Program Specialist 2	20	$83,151	$77k – $90k	▲ 10.8%
Comp Attorney Princ	19	$121,456	$108k – $121k	▲ 4.5%
Management Analyst 4	19	$101,627	$86k – $103k	▲ 4.5%
State Program Admin Director	18	$103,749	$39k – $113k	▼ 3.6%
State Program Admin Intermediate	18	$15,503	$2k – $65k	▼ 77.6%
Office and Admin Specialist Senior	17	$58,389	$35k – $62k	▲ 3.3%
Disability Supervisor	15	$90,348	$88k – $109k	▲ 10.3%
Workforce Development Specialist 2	15	$80,592	$43k – $90k	▲ 15.1%
State Program Admin Prin	14	$83,167	$36k – $98k	▼ 4.5%
State Program Admin Supervisor Senior	14	$17,457	$16k – $19k	new
Workforce Development Suprvsr	13	$100,790	$95k – $101k	▲ 16.6%
Unemployment Ins Program Specialist 2	13	$89,459	$88k – $91k	▲ 7.6%
Accounting Officer Principal	12	$88,627	$85k – $97k	▲ 2.4%
Grants Specialist Senior	12	$80,105	$74k – $91k	▼ 5.4%
State Program Admin Manager Prin	11	$144,049	$143k – $144k	▲ 6.8%
Unemployment Ins Aud 2	11	$74,941	$72k – $83k	▼ 2.1%
Office and Admin Specialist Int	11	$55,033	$50k – $56k	▲ 2.1%
Emp and Training Program Coordinator	10	$92,282	$80k – $102k	▼ 1.8%
Veterans Employment Specialist	10	$70,181	$67k – $76k	▲ 2.6%
Planner Principal State	9	$92,741	$84k – $98k	▲ 10.8%
Accounting Officer Senior	9	$87,888	$79k – $88k	▲ 11.6%
Veterans Employment Representative Senior	9	$83,969	$80k – $85k	▲ 9.7%
Accounting Technician	9	$60,115	$60k – $63k	▲ 5.8%
Unemployment Ins Aud 1	9	$55,184	$6k – $72k	▲ 14.8%
Emp and Econ Development Specialist Program Manager	8	$118,098	$114k – $121k	▲ 9.7%
Communications Specialist 3	8	$93,453	$51k – $98k	▲ 6.7%
Research Analysis Specialist Senior	8	$90,002	$80k – $92k	▲ 7.2%
Comp Attorney	8	$50,559	$17k – $105k	▼ 49.5%
Automobile Driver	8	$8,025	$1k – $15k	▲ 128.2%
Office and Admin Specialist Prin	7	$66,300	$63k – $67k	▲ 8.7%
Communication Center Specialist	7	$6,750	$3k – $72k	▼ 61.3%
Economic Development Manager	6	$130,951	$119k – $145k	▲ 5.6%
Unemployment Ins Program Specialist 3	6	$97,799	$98k – $104k	▲ 9.5%
Human Resources Consultant 1	6	$95,180	$47k – $105k	new
Braillist	6	$92,325	$91k – $92k	▲ 7.6%
Emp and Training Program Specialist Senior	6	$91,025	$91k – $91k	▲ 6.8%
Research Analyst Intermediate	6	$76,259	$76k – $86k	▲ 4.5%
Buyer 2	6	$74,698	$65k – $79k	▲ 12.0%
Management Analyst 2	6	$69,268	$47k – $76k	▲ 2.7%
Disability Program Operations Sup	5	$115,297	$114k – $118k	▲ 10.7%
International Trade Representative	5	$101,639	$102k – $104k	▲ 5.4%
Disability Program Med Rel Coordinator	5	$70,775	$71k – $78k	new
Human Resources Specialist 2	5	$70,540	$55k – $73k	new
Research Analysis Specialist	5	$69,004	$68k – $82k	▲ 8.1%
Agricultural Outreach Representative	5	$67,510	$64k – $68k	new
Customer Services Specialist Senior	5	$61,590	$62k – $62k	▲ 7.0%

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How many people earn what

Under $10k69
$10k – $30k86
$30k – $50k92
$50k – $70k395
$70k – $90k536
$90k – $110k350
$110k – $150k187
$150k or more12

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

Pay by department

Department	People	Typical pay
Rs Vr Field Svs X	218	$82,453
Dds Disability Determination	157	$70,036
Ui Csc St Paul	127	$63,256
Rs Vr Field Svs	96	$76,968
Wfd Job Seeker Svs Field Op X	74	$72,000
Ui Director	49	$83,539
Ssb Workforce Development X	41	$89,849
Co Fiscal Management	38	$82,762
Wfd Job Seeker Services	29	$91,525
Wfd Workforce Dev Dir	27	$83,285
Co Labor Market Info	27	$84,793
Ui Legal Affairs	25	$117,868

Common questions

How much does a Employment & Economic Development Department (Minnesota) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $76,813 in 2025: half of the 1,727 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $61,613 and $95,783.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (97.7% of all pay), overtime (0.5%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (1.8%).

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