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Marketing Manager Salary in Minnesota (2026)

The average Marketing Manager in Minnesota earns around $158,000/year. After taxes, your estimated take-home is $109,689/year ($9,141/month).

Take-Home Pay Breakdown

CategoryAmount
Annual Take-Home Pay
$109,689
Monthly Take-Home Pay
$9,141
Biweekly Take-Home Pay
$4,219
Hourly Take-Home Pay

based on 2,080 hrs/year

$53/hr
Federal Tax
$26,654
State Tax
$9,570
FICA Taxes
$12,087
Effective Tax Rate

total taxes ÷ gross salary

30.58%
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Marketing Manager Salary Ranges in Minnesota

Entry Level (0–3 yrs)

$105,000

/year

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Mid Level (3–7 yrs)

$158,000

/year

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Senior Level (7+ yrs)

$240,000

/year

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Not all Marketing Managers earn the same — not even close

Minnesota's marketing manager market is anchored by Target HQ Minneapolis (the country's 7th-largest retailer with substantial in-house brand + merchandising + media + digital marketing organization at ~$110B revenue), Best Buy HQ Richfield, General Mills HQ Golden Valley (Cheerios + Pillsbury + Häagen-Dazs CPG marketing), Hormel Foods Austin (Spam + Skippy + Jennie-O + Planters), 3M Maplewood (Post-it + Scotch + Command + Filtrete consumer brands), plus Ecolab + Land O'Lakes + UnitedHealth + Allianz Life + Polaris consumer + B2B marketing organizations.

VP / Director Marketing

$235,000–$425,000+ TC

Target VP · Best Buy VP · General Mills VP · 3M VP · Fortune 500 marketing leadership

Senior Brand Manager (CPG)

$135,000–$215,000

General Mills brand · Hormel brand · Cargill brand · ABM + ZBB + brand-equity specialty

Senior Marketing Manager (Retail)

$125,000–$195,000

Target marketing · Best Buy marketing · Cub Foods · merchandising + digital + media specialty

Senior Marketing Manager (Healthcare)

$130,000–$205,000

UnitedHealth + Allianz Life + Securian + Mayo Clinic · healthcare marketing + medical-marketing specialty

Senior Marketing Manager (Industrial)

$125,000–$195,000

3M industrial + Honeywell + Polaris + Toro · B2B + dealer-channel + product marketing specialty

Senior Digital / Performance Marketing

$135,000–$215,000

Target.com digital · Best Buy digital · UHG digital · paid + SEO + CRM + martech specialty

Senior Marketing Analytics / MMM

$135,000–$210,000

Target marketing analytics · General Mills MMM · 3M attribution · marketing-mix modeling specialty

Senior Communications / PR

$118,000–$185,000

Target corporate comms · UHG external affairs · General Mills PR · crisis + executive comms

Mid-Level Marketing Manager (3-6 yrs)

$92,000–$135,000

Functional MM at MN Fortune 500 · transitioning to senior band

Junior / Coordinator (0-3 yrs)

$58,000–$85,000

Carlson School + St. Thomas marketing + MN State Mankato pipeline · entry band

Worth knowing: Target HQ Minneapolis operates one of the country's largest in-house retail marketing organizations and a feature most national marketing surveys understate for MN. Target's marketing organization spans merchandising + brand + media + digital + owned-brand development at ~$110B revenue with ~2,000 stores. Target's owned-brand portfolio (Good & Gather + Cat & Jack + Threshold + Project 62 + Universal Thread among 45+ owned brands generating ~$35B+ annual revenue) operates the country's largest single-retailer owned-brand marketing organization. Senior Target brand + marketing managers clear $125-215K TC. General Mills Golden Valley operates substantial CPG marketing across iconic brands — Cheerios + Pillsbury + Betty Crocker + Yoplait + Häagen-Dazs + Nature Valley + Old El Paso — at $20B revenue scale. Hormel Foods Austin (Spam + Skippy + Jennie-O + Planters + Applegate) drives premium specialty CPG marketing. MN's 9.85% top bracket catches VP-level comp at $250K+ TC squarely — for a $300K VP Marketing the MN state tax adds ~$22-25K/year vs SD/TX/FL residency. The combined Twin Cities CPG + retail + healthcare marketing concentration is among the densest US per-capita marketing employers outside NYC + Chicago.

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