Michigan City-La Porte, IN Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Michigan City-La Porte, IN moved from $44,190 in May 2024 to $45,540 in May 2025 (+3.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Michigan City-La Porte, IN sits -0.0 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 33140 · Michigan City-La Porte, IN $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #420/528
- RPP-LOW 91.7
- OCC-THIN 195 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $355K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Pocatello, ID
- BOOK-MOST 195 rows · May 2025
Read with Pocatello, ID ($2 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 Michigan City-La Porte, IN
Where Michigan City-La Porte, IN already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators lead published employment inside Michigan City-La Porte, IN's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 580 jobs · $95,370
- 2. Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 170 jobs · $98,120
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 140 jobs · $106,380
- 4. Industrial Engineers 130 jobs · $97,360
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 120 jobs · $100,620
- 6. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $128,900
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 110 jobs · $96,590
- 8. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $140,630
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $124,520
- 10. Lawyers 70 jobs · $116,060
- 11. Facilities Managers 70 jobs · $102,620
- 12. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $100,320
- 13. Software Developers 70 jobs · $98,510
- 14. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $148,110
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $131,760
- 16. Electrical Engineers 60 jobs · $102,630
- 17. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $101,460
- 18. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $354,700
Occupations Tracked
195
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$52,979
employment-weighted, 195 complete rows
Top Salary
$354,700
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
91.7
8% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Michigan City-La Porte, IN, 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 Michigan City-La Porte, IN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $22,430 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,720 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,020 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,210 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,250 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $28,260 |
| Dishwashers | $28,330 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $28,390 |
| Cashiers | $28,520 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $28,640 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in IN
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 IN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,979 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.