--- title: "2027 Salary Guide: Minneapolis & Minnesota Pay | SkyWater" description: Download SkyWater's free 2027 Salary Guide with Minneapolis salary ranges for nearly 300 roles across 10 practice areas, plus national comparisons and AI impact. image: https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/hubfs/SkyWater%202027%20Salary%20Guide%20Video%20Thumbnail.png --- [![skywater](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/hubfs/SkyWater_April2019/images/skywater-logo.png)](https://skywatersearch.com) - [Employers](https://skywatersearch.com/employers/) - [Request Talent](https://skywatersearch.com/employers/request-talent/) - [Search Options](https://skywatersearch.com/employers/) - [Placement Areas](https://skywatersearch.com/practice-areas/) - [Executive Retained Search](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/executive-search/) - [Accounting & Finance](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/accounting-finance/) - [Engineering & Operations](https://www.skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/engineering-recruiters/) - [Human Resources](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/human-resources/) - [Information Technology](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/information-technology/) - [Legal](https://www.skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/legal/) - [Sales](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/sales/) - [Marketing](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/marketing/) - [Financial Services](https://www.skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/financial-services/) - [Construction](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/construction/) - [Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)](https://skywatersearch.com/practice_areas/consumer-packaged-goods-cpg/) - [Salary Guides](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/salary-guides) - [Client Reviews](https://skywatersearch.com/employers/client-reviews/) - [Recent Placements](https://skywatersearch.com/employers/recent-placements/) - [Candidate Assessments](https://www.skywatersearch.com/candidate-assessments/) - [Job Seekers](https://skywatersearch.com/job-seekers/) - [Search Job Listings](https://skywatersearch.com/job-seekers/search-job-listings/) - [Resume & Interview Tips](https://blog.skywatersearch.com) - [Submit Resume](https://skywatersearch.com/job-seekers/submit-your-resume/) - [Salary Guides](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/salary-guides) - [About Us](https://skywatersearch.com/our-team/) - [Why SkyWater](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/best-executive-search-firm-mn) - [Our Team](https://skywatersearch.com/our-team/) - [We're Hiring](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/careers) - [Commitment to DEI](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/diversity-equity-inclusion) - [FAQs](https://recruiters.skywatersearch.com/executive-search-faq) - [Press](https://www.skywatersearch.com/press-release/) - [Blog](https://blog.skywatersearch.com) - [Contact](https://skywatersearch.com/contact/) - [(952) 767-9000](tel:9527679000) # Salary Guides ## Minneapolis · Upper Midwest · National ## 2027 Salary Guide ### **What should you pay, or earn, in 2027?** Minneapolis · Upper Midwest · National Salary is at the heart of every successful offer. It sends a powerful message about the value you place on a role and your expectations of the person who will fill it. For professionals, it's often the clearest signal of where you stand in the market. SkyWater's 2027 Salary Guide gives you real-world salary ranges for nearly 300 roles across 10 practice areas in the Greater Minneapolis market. It's built from our own placement data and the firsthand insights of the recruiters who work these markets every day, so you get the numbers and context you need without the noise. #### See What's Driving Salaries in 2027 Hear from the SkyWater team on the hiring and compensation trends shaping the Minneapolis market and beyond heading into 2027. #### Choose Your Guide Download the All-In-One 2027 Salary Guide to see every practice area in one place, or choose the specialized guide for your field. - **All-In-One Salary Guide:** Every role, every practice area, and every market insight in a single download. - **Accounting & Finance:** From staff accountants and financial analysts to controllers and CFOs. - **Construction:** Superintendents, estimators, and civil, structural, and project engineers. - **Financial Services:** Investment, sales, trading, compliance, investor relations, investment banking, and private equity roles. - **Human Resources:** HR generalists and business partners through total rewards, talent acquisition, and CHRO roles. - **Information Technology:** Software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, data, product, and IT leadership. - **Legal:** In-house counsel salaries and bonuses, plus law firm associate compensation by class year. - **Marketing & Creative:** Advertising agency and in-house brand roles, from copywriters and account executives to CMOs. - **MedTech & Life Sciences:** Marketing, product, market access, clinical, regulatory, and quality roles. - **Operations, Engineering & Supply Chain:** Engineers, plant and supply chain managers, and operations executives. - **Sales & Consumer Packaged Goods:** Sales representatives through sales executives, plus CPG category and account roles. #### What's Inside the 2027 Guide - **Salary ranges by company size.** Most roles show ranges for small ($0 to $50M), medium ($51M to $500M), and large ($501M+) organizations, since size is one of the biggest drivers of pay. - **Minneapolis vs. national pay.** See whether Minneapolis compensation for each role runs above, near, or below the national average. - **Compensation direction and hiring demand.** Know which roles are seeing rising pay and where employers are competing hardest for talent. - **AI impact ratings.** Find out how much AI is expected to reshape each role over the next three to five years. - **Insights from our practice leaders** on what's really happening in their markets. #### Who This Guide Is For **Hiring managers and HR leaders** who want to build competitive offers, set realistic budgets, and benchmark pay against the Minneapolis and national markets. **Professionals** who want to understand their market value, prepare for salary conversations, or evaluate their next opportunity. ##### Sources This guide draws on SkyWater's own placement and recruiting data, firsthand market observations from our practice leaders, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Salary.com, and Indeed. We cross-referenced this data against publicly available compensation research from other national search and staffing firms, and for select roles, drew additional context from Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, and Robert Half compensation data. Conditions vary by company, industry, and individual candidate, so treat these ranges as a starting point for a conversation, not a final answer. --- #### Frequently Asked Questions **What does the 2027 Salary Guide cover?** The guide includes salary ranges for nearly 300 roles across accounting and finance, construction, financial services, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and creative, MedTech and life sciences, operations and supply chain, and sales and CPG. **Are the salaries specific to Minneapolis?** Yes. The ranges reflect typical base pay in the Greater Minneapolis market, and each role includes a comparison to national compensation levels. **How does company size affect salary?** Smaller, less complex organizations tend to pay toward the low end of a range, while larger, more complex organizations tend to pay toward the high end. The guide shows ranges for small, medium, and large companies for most roles. **Do the salary ranges include bonuses?** No. Ranges reflect base salary only. Bonuses and other incentive pay are not included, though the Legal guide does include typical bonus ranges for in-house roles. **Should I download the All-In-One or a specialized guide?** If you hire across multiple functions or want the full market picture, the All-In-One is the best fit. 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