September 2025 - Minnesota Employment Review
Spotlight: Northwest Minnesota Wages: Beating Inflation and Narrowing the Gap
Not only have Northwest wages outpaced inflation, but the wage gap with Minnesota statewide has been cut in half. Twenty years ago Northwest wages lagged statewide wages by 23.5%. Today that gap is just 11.2%.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
The unemployment rate increased to 3.6% in Minnesota in August on a seasonally adjusted basis.
August 2025: Alternative Measures of Unemployment
Minnesota's official unemployment rate is a useful indicator of the health of the state's economy, but it does not tell the whole story.
Regional Analysis
An analysis of the current month’s employment picture broken out by Metropolitan Statistical Area.
JOLTS Update July 2025
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) Survey conducted by the BLS shows that in July the number of job openings rose to 167,000 over the month in Minnesota on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Consumer Price Index
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after rising 0.2 percent in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.