Midland, MI Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.9) - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Midland, MI moved from $50,650 in May 2024 to $49,340 in May 2025 (-2.6%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Midland, MI sits -5.7 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
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Wage Scorecard
44/100
Midland, MI

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.

Wage Level B-
$49,340
All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)
Wage Growth F
-2.6%
Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)
Real Purchasing Power B+
$53,677
Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 91.9, BEA)

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Midland, MI

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $36,950 here versus $35,800 nationally (+3.2%; 2,700metro-area jobs).

  1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides$36,950 in Midland, MI sits 3.2% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,700 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Midland, MI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 33220 · Midland, MI $62K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MID #147/528
  • RPP-LOW 91.9
  • OCC-THIN 168 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $588K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-BEHIND -5.7 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Atlantic City-Ha…
  • BOOK-MOST 168 rows · May 2025

Read with Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ ($55 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 Midland, MI

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KMidland, MI · this MSA: $62KMidland, MI · this MSA$62KAtlantic City-Hammon… · near: $62KAtlantic City-Hammon… · near$62KCrestview-Fort Walto… · near: $62KCrestview-Fort Walto… · near$62KTucson, AZ · near: $62KTucson, AZ · near$62KSt. Cloud, MN · near: $62KSt. Cloud, MN · near$62KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Midland, MI · this MSA $62K
Atlantic City-Hammon… · near $62K
Crestview-Fort Walto… · near $62K
Tucson, AZ · near $62K
St. Cloud, MN · near $62K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Midland, MI already employs the upper wage tier

General and Operations Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Midland, MI's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 620 jobs · $98,270
  2. 2. Financial Managers 310 jobs · $173,080
  3. 3. Chemists 240 jobs · $105,710
  4. 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 230 jobs · $112,320
  5. 5. Computer Systems Analysts 210 jobs · $102,840
  6. 6. Project Management Specialists 200 jobs · $100,190
  7. 7. Industrial Engineers 170 jobs · $104,700
  8. 8. Mechanical Engineers 120 jobs · $109,230
  9. 9. Management Analysts 120 jobs · $99,590
  10. 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $166,460
  11. 11. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $154,070
  12. 12. Physician Assistants 110 jobs · $129,860
  13. 13. Construction Managers 110 jobs · $95,540
  14. 14. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $147,830
  15. 15. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $170,710
  16. 16. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $128,280
  17. 17. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $110,310
  18. 18. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $587,950

Occupations Tracked

168

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$62,379

employment-weighted, 168 complete rows

Top Salary

$587,950

Chief Executives

Cost of Living

91.9

8% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $62,379 by the metro RPP gives $67,862 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Midland, MI, by employment

Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 General and Operations Managers $98,270
2 Financial Managers $173,080
3 Chemists $105,710
4 Medical and Health Services Managers $112,320
5 Computer Systems Analysts $102,840
6 Project Management Specialists $100,190
7 Industrial Engineers $104,700
8 Mechanical Engineers $109,230
9 Management Analysts $99,590
10 Architectural and Engineering Managers $166,460
11 Industrial Production Managers $154,070
12 Physician Assistants $129,860
13 Construction Managers $95,540
14 Pharmacists $147,830
15 Human Resources Managers $170,710
16 Sales Managers $128,280
17 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $110,310
18 Chief Executives $587,950
19 Natural Sciences Managers $212,130
20 Administrative Services Managers $123,690
21 Information Security Analysts $105,830
22 Facilities Managers $114,330
23 Civil Engineers $96,730
24 Dentists, General $167,770
25 Computer Occupations, All Other $102,280

Lowest Paying Jobs in Midland, MI

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 ($62,379 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Midland, MI wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 168 occupation rows is $62,379/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 91.9 puts local prices 8% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $67,862 in national-price terms. Page lists 168 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $144,788.
What is the highest paying job in Midland, MI?
The highest paying occupation in Midland, MI is Chief Executives with a median salary of $587,950/year. The second highest is Natural Sciences Managers at $212,130/year.
What jobs pay the least in Midland, MI?
The lowest paying occupation in Midland, MI is Cooks, Fast Food with a median salary of $27,090/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Midland, MI's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

What to do with this data

How to use Midland, MI wage figures in a real decision

  • Chief Executives leads published medians in Midland, MI at $587,950/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $62,379 adjusts to about $67,862 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 91.9. 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.

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