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State comparison · 2025

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand salary: Kansas vs Minnesota

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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
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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
See full breakdown for Minnesota

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.