Industrial Engineers
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 13,970.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of industrial engineers in Minneapolis earn more.
$104,730 in Minneapolis buys what $99,900 buys across the country as a whole.
Minneapolis's regional price parity is 104.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Minnesota
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Minneapolis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis This page | $104,730 | $99,900 | 104.8 | — |
| Rochester | $97,190 | $107,000 | 90.8 | +7.1% |
| Duluth | $96,150 | $108,300 | 88.8 | +8.4% |
| Mankato | $96,110 | $105,700 | 91.0 | +5.8% |
| St. Cloud | $88,340 | $100,800 | 87.6 | +0.9% |
Price parity and difference against Minneapolis are in the full table on wider screens.
Who pays what
Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.
| Employer | Median offer | Range | Filings | vs. metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cummins | $108,971 | $88k – $135k | 9 | +4.0% |
| ST Jude Medical Cardiology Division | $108,971 | $75k – $130k | 15 | +4.0% |
| Boston Scientific | $105,726 | $90k – $121k | 5 | +1.0% |
| Medtronic | $105,726 | $90k – $132k | 11 | +1.0% |
| Phillips-medisize | $95,000 | $80k – $96k | 6 | −9.3% |
| Intellectt | $93,600 | $75k – $115k | 13 | −10.6% |
Offer ranges and filing counts are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 5.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 11.3% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employer pay
- Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. The table draws on 59 certified filings across 6 employers.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 13,970 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 17-2112, Industrial Engineers. Mapped to our taxonomy as industrial-engineers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. Visa filings record offered base salary at time of application, exclude equity and bonus, and skew toward larger employers — treat the employer table as a floor, not an average. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.