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.
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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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.