Compared with the local labor market
Senior Court Clerk (Ctsstate) 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 Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 3,100 people — is $57,180. Courts pays a median base salary of $40,466 for this role, 29% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Courts sits in the local pay range
$47,840
$51,110
$57,180
$65,520
$75,300
The bar is the range of annual wages for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks 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 Courts’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 179,750 people — is $48,700. Courts’s median base salary is 17% below that national figure, about the 24th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$36,300
$40,810
$48,700
$60,840
$73,820
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 Courts is $51,737, 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
Senior Court Clerk (Ctsstate) is held in 2 Ramsey County, Minnesota departments. In Courts, the median of $51,737 ranks #1 of 2.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Senior Court Clerk (Ctsstate) role in other Ramsey County, Minnesotadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.