IT Manager Salary in Minnesota (2026)

Worth knowing: Mayo Clinic Rochester operates one of the country's most sophisticated academic medical center IT organizations and a feature most national IT-career surveys understate for MN. Mayo Clinic IT (~12K IT staff across Rochester + Jacksonville + Scottsdale + regional sites, supporting ~70K total Mayo employees) operates substantial Epic EHR + clinical decision + research-IT + Mayo Clinic Platform AI infrastructure. Senior Mayo IT directors clear $215-365K TC. UnitedHealth Group enterprise IT Minnetonka (~25K MN) is the country's largest healthcare IT employer at Fortune 5 scale (parent UHG ~$400B revenue, ~400K global employees) — substantial Optum + UHG insurance + clinical-platform IT including the country's largest healthcare cloud migration program. Cargill Wayzata corporate IT is the largest private-company IT organization in the country at $165B revenue scale — global ERP + commodity-trading systems + ag-supply-chain IT. Target HQ Minneapolis IT (post-2013 cyber rebuild) operates one of the most mature US retail IT programs. MN's 9.85% top bracket catches CIO + VP IT comp at $400K+ TC squarely — for a $750K CIO comp the MN state tax adds ~$68-72K/year vs SD/TX/FL residency. The $3M estate exemption catches CIO + VP equity wealth accumulation by mid-to-late career.