2. Minnesota
Annual Salary: $98,690
Cost of living index: 100.8
Available jobs: 1,100
With the high number of biomedical engineering jobs available and a salary that could pay the bills and still provide you the things you want, Minnesota is a great place to be. The cost of living does not hurt, too. Plus, the people are supposedly a really special kind of nice.

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