- The middle half earn between $36.44 and $52.78 an hour.
- Only 9 states pay construction supervisors more at the median.
- Minnesota pays more than all 4 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 13,580 construction supervisors on payrolls in Minnesota.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $153.01 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Minnesota, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $28.54 | $59,360 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $36.44 | $75,790 | $30.48 |
| Median | $46.93 | $97,610 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $52.78 | $109,770 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $61.72 | $128,380 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $45.66 | $94,970 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Minnesota. The top tenth earn $61.72 an hour or more, about 2.2 times the $28.54 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 2.4 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
Both ends of the scale beat the national figures: $28.54 against $25.62 at the bottom tenth, and $61.72 against $61.66 at the top.
The average wage ($45.66) is a little under the median, so the low end of the range stretches further than the high end in Minnesota.
How Minnesota compares with other states
Over a full year, the Minnesota median of $97,610 is $17,690 more than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, Minnesota sits 10th, between California ($46.96) and New York ($46.01). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Minnesota pays construction supervisors more than any of its neighboring states, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Someone working near the border can earn more by taking work on this side of it.
These are wages as paid, not adjusted for what it costs to live in Minnesota. Rent, home prices and taxes decide how far a higher wage goes.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Minnesota |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | $46.93 | $97,610 | |
| Iowa | $37.75 | $78,510 | −$9.18 an hour |
| North Dakota | $39.12 | $81,370 | −$7.81 an hour |
| South Dakota | $37.35 | $77,690 | −$9.58 an hour |
| Wisconsin | $41.03 | $85,350 | −$5.90 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Minnesota
About 13,580 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Minnesota, 1.7% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 24th largest count among the states.
That is 4.6 of every 1,000 jobs in Minnesota, close to the trade's share of jobs nationally.
What a contracting business in Minnesota should charge
Higher wages in Minnesota go straight into the price. Take a contracting business in Minnesota paying the state median of $46.93 and run it through the labor rate calculator with its starting numbers (40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit).
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $46.93 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $105,082 |
| Break-even rate | ($105,082 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $130.05 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $130.05 ÷ 0.85 | $153.01 |
That is $153.01 per billable hour, 3.3 times the wage, and $14.95 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $52.78 in Minnesota, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $163.28.
At this wage the pay itself is the biggest part of the price, so every raise shows up in the rate: a dollar more an hour adds about $1.76 per billed hour.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.