$30,000 After Taxes in Minnesota (2026)

A single filer paid $30,000 in Minnesota has $13,900 of federal taxable income after the $16,100 standard deduction. The top slice of that income falls in the 12% federal bracket, which starts at $12,400 of taxable income, and federal income tax comes to $1,420, or 4.73% of the salary.

Payroll tax is federal and the same in Minnesota as everywhere else: on $30,000 of wages it is $2,295, made up of $1,860 of Social Security at 6.2% of every dollar and $435 of Medicare at 1.45%.

Minnesota taxable income is $14,700, and its top slice reaches the 5.35% Minnesota rate, below the state's 9.85% top rate. State income tax is $786, 2.62% of the salary. Four brackets at 5.35%, 6.80%, 7.85% and 9.85%; the rates themselves have not changed since 2013.

Altogether $4,501 of a $30,000 Minnesota salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 15.00%, which leaves $25,499 a year: $2,125 a month, $981 every two weeks, $490 a week, or $12 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $30,000, Minnesota ranks 37th of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $786 more a year, and the median state $225 more than Minnesota. The lowest take-home at $30,000 is $24,621, in Oregon, $878 less than in Minnesota.

Across the state line the same $30,000 leaves a single filer: North Dakota $26,285, $786 more; South Dakota $26,285, $786 more; Iowa $25,797, $298 more; Wisconsin $25,694, $195 more.

These Minnesota figures treat the whole $30,000 as wages, take the standard deduction, claim no dependents and include no federal credits. A pre-tax 401(k) contribution or health premium would lower taxable income and raise take-home; a second income or itemized deductions would change it again.