Compared with the local labor market
Fleet Mechanic 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 Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists — about 4,290 people — is $73,730. Public Works pays a median base salary of $77,445 for this role, 5% above that figure — about the 65th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Public Works sits in the local pay range
$51,390
$61,620
$73,730
$79,800
$94,110
Public Works median · $77,445
The bar is the range of annual wages for Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists 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 Public Works’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists — about 289,960 people — is $61,770. Public Works’s median base salary is 25% above that national figure, about the 77th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$44,530
$50,540
$61,770
$75,470
$88,740
Public Works median · $77,445
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.
Computed over the 22 of 27 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Public Works is $74,633, 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 jurisdictions
Fleet Mechanic beyond Ramsey County, Minnesota
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In Ramsey County, Minnesota, the median of $74,633 ranks #2 of 2. See Fleet Mechanic across all of Ramsey County, Minnesota →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Fleet Mechanicroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.