State comparison · 2025
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand salary: Kansas vs Minnesota
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Minnesota earn a median of $46,280. In Kansas, $40,250. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.8% — not 13%.
Nominal pay gap
-13%
Kansas vs Minnesota
COL-adjusted gap
-4.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Median
- $40,250
- p25
- $35,580
- p75
- $46,300
- p10
- $30,830
- p90
- $51,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
Minnesota
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Median
- $46,280
- p25
- $39,110
- p75
- $52,070
- p10
- $35,750
- p90
- $61,140
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.6
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.