Minimum education
No statewide requirement identified
The reviewed no-statewide-credential finding explicitly resolves statewide education non-applicability; local rules may differ.
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Minnesota State Guide
Massage Therapy in Minnesota
Explore Minnesota massage licensing requirements, professional organizations, insurance considerations, continuing education, workforce data, and official resources, with links to official sources.
Statewide requirements and local rules are identified separately. This guide is general information, not legal advice.
- Regulator
- Minnesota Department of Health for future statewide registration; municipalities for current local licensing
- Verified
- Credential
- No statewide massage therapist license identified
- Verified not applicable
- Reviewed authority explicitly identifies no statewide massage credential; local requirements may still apply.
MN · main-state atlas plateMinnesota
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01 · Licensing
No mandatory statewide massage license; local requirements may apply
VerifiedOpen the full record →
Local practitioner requirements may apply until July 1, 2028; municipalities may continue licensing massage establishments afterward.
Renewal
No current statewide renewal cycle. Enacted optional registrations expire two years after issuance.
No statewide massage credential renewal applies; the orientation may still identify bounded local renewal requirements.
Continuing education
No statewide recurring CE requirement
The structured CE reporting period is explicitly not applicable statewide; local or employer requirements may differ.
Entry
Verified not applicable
Examination — No statewide examination requirement
Every applicable structured examination category is explicitly not required statewide.
Verified
Additional requirements — Current practitioners remain subject to Chapter 146A and applicable local requirements; future registrants must meet enacted insurance and registration conditions.
From the licensing record
Renewal and continuing education
Verified
Required subjects — No statewide required CE subjects were established; local requirements may apply.
From the licensing record
Verified
Carryover — Not applicable because no statewide routine CE requirement was established.
From the licensing record
Scope, title and advertising
Verified
Scope of practice — Current massage practice is governed through Chapter 146A and local regulation rather than an operational statewide massage license; Chapter 115 creates future registration boundaries.
From the licensing record
02 · Organizations
Professional organizations
Bounded
These are selected governed organizations, not a comprehensive state directory.
State chapter of a national professional association
American Massage Therapy Association — Minnesota Chapter
The official AMTA page identifies the Minnesota chapter as a professional-association connection for the state's massage community.
Massage therapists and massage-therapy students interested in AMTA membership.
Member support
- State chapter connection
- AMTA — Minnesota Chapter Accessed October 6, 2026
Verified October 6, 2026
03 · Insurance
Insurance considerations
Bounded
Enacted optional registration requires future registrants, including renewal applicants, to show professional liability coverage of at least $2 million per occurrence and $6 million annual aggregate. Current local, employer, and contract requirements may differ.
Limits of this finding
The reviewed sources do not support a universal legal conclusion. General information only—not legal, financial, or coverage advice.
Professional risk context
Compare covered modalities, exclusions, defense costs, policy form, prior-acts treatment, occurrence territory, and reporting duties.
General liability addresses premises and other third-party risks that may be distinct from professional services.
- A narrow state-law finding is not a recommendation to practice uninsured.
- Confirm employer, contract, establishment, landlord, event, and local requirements independently.
- Minnesota Laws 2026, Chapter 115 Accessed October 6, 2026
Questions for an insurer
- Which modalities, populations, and locations are covered?
- Are defense costs inside or outside policy limits?
- What incident-reporting deadlines and exclusions apply?
04 · Continuing education
Legal orientation and official starting points
Bounded
Legal CE orientation
No statewide recurring CE requirement
Verified not applicableThe structured CE reporting period is explicitly not applicable statewide; local or employer requirements may differ.
Use official starting points to explore continuing-education resources in Minnesota. Legal renewal and continuing-education requirements are on Minnesota's CE and renewal page.
See detailed Minnesota renewal and CE requirements →Compare Minnesota CE and renewal with other states →Official CE starting points
Bounded05 · Workforce
Minnesota workforce outlook
Bounded
BLS May 2025 OEWS estimated 1,690 wage-and-salary massage therapist jobs in Minnesota, with a median hourly wage of $30.32. These are estimates, not license or practitioner counts.
Employment
Bounded1,690
Estimated wage-and-salary jobs
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS estimate of massage therapist jobs in Minnesota in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- OEWS excludes self-employed workers and estimates wage-and-salary jobs rather than active licenses or all practitioners.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 18.4 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
Compensation
Bounded$30.32/hr
Median hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS median hourly wage for massage therapists in Minnesota in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
$33.52/hr
Mean hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS mean hourly wage for massage therapists in Minnesota in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 5.4 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
$69,720
Annual mean wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS annual mean wage for massage therapists in Minnesota in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 5.4 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
Population universe
OEWS measures wage-and-salary jobs by occupation through an employer survey.
Self-employment
OEWS excludes self-employed workers, which is material in massage therapy; national self-employment context must not be presented as a state-specific percentage.
Workforce source set
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
06 · Resources
Official resources
BoundedEvery route leaves MassageData.
A selected official starting set, not a complete source ledger.
07 · Method
How this guide is made
Every field on this page carries a knowledge state, and every state is written as a word before it is drawn as a colour.
- Verified
- We checked the cited source on the stated date and the requirement exists as published. The date is the claim: it says when we looked, not that the rule is permanent.
- Verified not applicable
- We checked and there is no such requirement, or the question does not apply in this jurisdiction. This is a complete answer carrying the same weight as a value, not a gap where one is missing.
- Bounded
- We know part of the answer and can say exactly where our knowledge stops. The boundary is stated in words and the fuller source is linked. A bounded finding is the edge of what we know, never an error.
What this guide does not determine
Local business, zoning, facility, and professional rules may apply in addition to statewide requirements. Confirm current requirements with the responsible authority before acting.
Sources and reviewBounded
This guide projects 7 distinct official or first-party source links from the governed records. Reviewed October 6, 2026.