Jackson, MI Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Jackson, MI moved from $46,710 in May 2024 to $47,760 in May 2025 (+2.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Jackson, MI sits -0.9 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 27100 · Jackson, MI $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #258/528
- RPP-LOW 91.8
- OCC-MID 231 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $298K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE -0.9 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Saginaw, MI
- BOOK-MOST 229 rows · May 2025
Read with Saginaw, MI (+$0 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Jackson, MI
Where Jackson, MI already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Jackson, MI's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 390 jobs · $130,220
- 2. Financial Managers 310 jobs · $149,930
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 260 jobs · $112,650
- 4. Electrical Engineers 230 jobs · $109,240
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 210 jobs · $170,400
- 6. Sales Managers 170 jobs · $151,710
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $108,940
- 8. Managers, All Other 150 jobs · $165,710
- 9. Architectural and Engineering Managers 140 jobs · $159,680
- 10. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $134,080
- 11. Computer Occupations, All Other 110 jobs · $128,570
- 12. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 90 jobs · $107,960
- 13. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 80 jobs · $133,680
- 14. Information Security Analysts 80 jobs · $130,010
- 15. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $129,460
- 16. Civil Engineers 80 jobs · $107,320
- 17. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $149,930
- 18. Data Scientists 70 jobs · $107,640
Occupations Tracked
231
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,204
employment-weighted, 229 complete rows
Top Salary
$298,440
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
91.8
8% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Jackson, MI, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Jackson, MI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $25,960 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,390 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,980 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,920 |
| Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | $29,290 |
| Cashiers | $29,370 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,460 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $29,600 |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | $29,650 |
| Animal Caretakers | $29,810 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MI
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside MI. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($58,204 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Jackson, MI wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Jackson, MI at $298,440/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,204 adjusts to about $63,418 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 91.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MI before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.