Minneapolis
The Minneapolis minimum wage is $16.37 an hour in 2026 and rises to $17.02 on January 1, 2027. The city's page says it applies regardless of employer size or the employee's age. That's well above Minnesota's $11.41 state rate, so labor for Minneapolis work needs its own rate in your books.
Minneapolis is where the state wage figures stop being the whole story. This page covers the city minimum wage, how Minnesota sales tax treats cleaning, and what the higher wage means for your books. For payroll registration and the rest of the state picture, see bookkeeping for Minnesota cleaning businesses.
In 2026 the Minneapolis minimum wage is $16.37 an hour, and on January 1, 2027 it goes to $17.02. There's no size tier to sort out here, unlike Saint Paul: the city's page says the rate applies regardless of employer size or the employee's age.
Source: City of Minneapolis, Minimum Wage
For comparison, Minnesota's statewide rate is $11.41 in 2026 and $11.87 on January 1, 2027. Which of your jobs fall under the city minimum wage is a question for the city or an employment attorney.
At the state level, commercial cleaning is taxable and residential cleaning depends on the task, with floor and window cleaning on the taxable list and making beds and dishwashing off it. The full lists are on the Minnesota sales tax on cleaning page. This page does not cover local sales taxes, and how the rules apply to your jobs is a question for your CPA.
Source: Minnesota Department of Revenue, Building Cleaning and Maintenance industry guide (June 29, 2026)
A $17.02 floor next year can look like a lot to absorb on contracts you priced at the old number. Don't panic. It's one rate. It's on the calendar. We'll get it into your job costs before January. I book labor at the wage you actually pay, and then the job profitability estimator shows which Minneapolis contracts still carry their weight at the new rate.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep the labor numbers accurate and recorded; tax and filing questions go to your CPA.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Minneapolis and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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Minneapolis uses one city rate regardless of employer size, and it sits well above the state rate, so labor for city work needs its own rate in your books. Payroll gets booked at the wage you actually pay and recorded against each job, which shows you which Minneapolis contracts still hold up once the January increase lands. Tell me which ones worry you most on a short call; you can book it below.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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Tell me which Minneapolis contracts worry you most going into 2027. We'll run the numbers together, and the first conversation doesn't cost anything.
