Bookkeeper salary in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area

Pay in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area against Minnesota and the US

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area earns $44,360–$60,280. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $67,620, only 1.9 times the bottom tenth, against 2.1 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $15,920 wide, between the figure for Minnesota ($15,670) and the US figure ($17,950).

What to budget for a bookkeeper here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $10,090 over the median, the 25th only $5,830 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $13,019 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $50,670 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, and the Minnesota statewide median of $54,600 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $14,571 to the $50,190 median and brings it to $64,761 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between HR assistants ($50,800) and administrative assistants ($48,880). Project Coordinator is the highest at $88,000.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #7 of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area (-0.9%), between HR assistants (+0.4%) and payroll specialists (-1.3%). The typical role here is at -1.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Bookkeepers hold 13.9% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, 9.2% across Minnesota and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Minnesota

Across the 9 areas of Minnesota with data for this job, the median runs from $49,620 in the Southeast Minnesota nonmetro area to $58,350 in Rochester, a gap of $8,730 a year. The one area in Minnesota with more bookkeepers, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI ($57,790), also pays more.

the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area is #120 of 521 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Minnesota, Raleigh-Cary and Lewiston-Auburn pay just above the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area and Sheboygan and Tampa-St. Petersburg just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, one pays more.

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