$55,000 After Taxes in Minnesota (2026)

A single filer paid $55,000 in Minnesota has $38,900 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 $4,420, or 8.04% of the salary.

Payroll tax is federal and the same in Minnesota as everywhere else: on $55,000 of wages it is $4,208, made up of $3,410 of Social Security at 6.2% of every dollar and $798 of Medicare at 1.45%.

Minnesota taxable income is $39,700, and its top slice reaches the 6.8% Minnesota rate above $33,310, below the state's 9.85% top rate. State income tax is $2,217, 4.03% of the salary. Four brackets at 5.35%, 6.80%, 7.85% and 9.85%; the rates themselves have not changed since 2013.

Altogether $10,844 of a $55,000 Minnesota salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 19.72%, which leaves $44,156 a year: $3,680 a month, $1,698 every two weeks, $849 a week, or $21 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $55,000, Minnesota ranks 41st of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $2,217 more a year, and the median state $562 more than Minnesota. The lowest take-home at $55,000 is $42,783, in Oregon, $1,373 less than in Minnesota.

Across the state line the same $55,000 leaves a single filer: North Dakota $46,373, $2,217 more; South Dakota $46,373, $2,217 more; Iowa $44,934, $778 more; Wisconsin $44,549, $393 more.

These Minnesota figures treat the whole $55,000 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.