Minnesota post-judgment interest rate
United States Minnesota’s annual general rate, fixed 10% branch, and child-support history.
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Published value
2026 Minnesota post-judgment interest at a glance
- Current rate
- 4% / 10% per year
- Effective date
- January 1, 2026
- Controlling authority
- Minn. Stat. § 549.09, subd. 1(c)
- Rate basis
- Published value
- Source checked
- August 22, 2026
- Recorded history
- 39 data points
Minnesota does not have one universal judgment-interest percentage. For 2026, the general rate under Minn. Stat. §549.09, subd. 1(c) is 4%. A qualifying judgment or award over $50,000 can instead use 10%, subject to entry-date and statutory exclusions. The general percentage resets by calendar year while the qualifying 10% branch is generally fixed at entry until paid.
How Minnesota post-judgment interest works
Which rate applies
The 10% branch began August 1, 2009 for qualifying judgments or awards over $50,000, but it does not apply universally. The statute excludes specified public-party matters and later excluded family-court actions; tax, condemnation, arbitration, child-support, and other special paths require separate review. Beginning August 1, 2022, interest does not accrue on past, current, or future child-support judgments. The statute’s separate discretion to lower interest in other family-court actions expressly does not apply to child-support judgments.
When interest accrues
The general branch follows each calendar year’s published rate rather than staying at the percentage from entry. The qualifying-over-$50,000 branch generally keeps the 10% rate in effect when the judgment was entered until paid. Interest ordinarily runs from entry, but statutory exclusions and special judgment types can change the start date or applicable path.
Compounding and rate lock
The official materials describe simple interest using a 365-day year and direct payments first to taxable disbursements, then accrued interest, then principal. StatuteRates still withholds a payoff calculator because it does not yet determine every entry-vintage, family-court, public-party, exception, and payment scenario safely.
Official history coverage
The dataset publishes 39 official dated general-rate change points from 1990 through 2026 and shows the qualifying-over-$50,000 branch in paired values from its August 2009 transition. The official tables leave the 1990–1992 child-support cells blank and later direct that branch to follow §549.09 subject to an 18% cap; those child-support details are disclosed here but are not flattened into a numeric historical lookup. The August 2022 zero-rate transition is recorded in the rule metadata. An official pre-1990 document is linked for research but is not machine-ingested until its older periods are independently verified.
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Effective-date history
| Effective date | Rate | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| January 1, 2026 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2025 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2024 | 5% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2023 | 5% / 10% | Published |
| August 1, 2022 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2022 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2021 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2020 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2019 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2018 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2017 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2016 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2015 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2014 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2013 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2012 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2011 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2010 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| August 1, 2009 | 4% / 10% | Published |
| January 1, 2009 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2008 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2007 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 2006 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2005 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2004 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2003 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 2002 | 2% | Published |
| January 1, 2001 | 6% | Published |
| January 1, 2000 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 1999 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 1998 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 1997 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 1996 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 1995 | 6% | Published |
| January 1, 1994 | 3% | Published |
| January 1, 1993 | 4% | Published |
| January 1, 1992 | 5% | Published |
| January 1, 1991 | 7% | Published |
| January 1, 1990 | 7% | Published |
Use this recorded history
39 source-backed periods are released from 1990-01-01 through 2026-08-22. For this series, the date input means rate-schedule reference date. Shows the official general annual schedule and, from August 1, 2009, the separate qualifying-over-$50,000 10% branch. The general branch uses the accrual calendar year; 10% eligibility depends on the judgment-entry date and statutory exclusions. Child-support, family-court, public-party, tax, condemnation, arbitration, and other branches require separate review.
Source & provenance
Observation recorded August 22, 2026 (00:00 UTC) from the cited source (Minnesota Judicial Branch and Revisor of Statutes (official)):
https://mncourts.gov/_media/migration/ciomedialibrary/news-and-public-notices/2026-Interest-Rates-on-State-Court-Judgements.pdf
Cite this page
StatuteRates. “Minnesota Judgment Interest Rate.” StatuteRates.com. Accessed today. https://statuterates.com/rates/minnesota-judgment-rate/ Rate recorded under Minn. Stat. § 549.09, subd. 1(c), effective January 1, 2026.