State comparison · 2025
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand salary: Kentucky vs Minnesota
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Minnesota earn a median of $46,280. In Kentucky, $42,770. After cost-of-living, the gap is 1% — not 7.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-7.6%
Kentucky vs Minnesota
COL-adjusted gap
+1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Median
- $42,770
- p25
- $35,510
- p75
- $46,830
- p10
- $30,890
- p90
- $49,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
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.