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Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products

Mankato, MN metropolitan area. Estimated employment 530.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 41-4012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$69,100 · 50th
$43,38010th
$54,94025th
$69,10050th
$90,68075th
$125,30090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Mankato earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$69,100 in Mankato buys what $76,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Mankato's regional price parity is 91.0 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Minnesota

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Mankato
Minneapolis$78,470$74,900104.8−1.5%
Rochester$72,210$79,50090.8+4.7%
Mankato This page$69,100$76,00091.0
St. Cloud$64,700$73,80087.6−2.8%
Duluth$63,670$71,70088.8−5.6%

Price parity and difference against Mankato are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 19.7% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Mankato earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
530 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 41-4012, Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products. Mapped to our taxonomy as sales-representatives-wholesale-and-manufacturing-except-technical-and-scientific-products.

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