Compared with the local labor market
Planning Specialist 1 pay vs. the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area
Across all employers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, the median wage for Urban and Regional Planners — about 580 people — is $103,970. Countywide Operations pays a median base salary of $84,674 for this role, 19% below that figure — about the 23rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Countywide Operations sits in the local pay range
$70,020
$86,370
$103,970
$110,540
$129,500
Countywide Operations median · $84,674
The bar is the range of annual wages for Urban and Regional Planners across every employer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Countywide Operations’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Urban and Regional Planners — about 44,230 people — is $89,320. Countywide Operations’s median base salary is 5% below that national figure, about the 43rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$60,010
$72,020
$89,320
$110,030
$134,490
Countywide Operations median · $84,674
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Countywide Operations is $85,049, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
This role across Ramsey County, Minnesota
Planning Specialist 1 is held in 10 Ramsey County, Minnesota departments. In Countywide Operations, the median of $83,974 ranks #1 of 10.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Planning Specialist 1 role in other Ramsey County, Minnesotadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.