Traverse City, MI Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Traverse City, MI - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Traverse City, MI moved from $46,530 in May 2024 to $47,470 in May 2025 (+2.0%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Traverse City, MI sits -1.1 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Registered Nurses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Traverse City, MI
Registered Nurses publishes $83,690 here versus $97,550 nationally (-14.2%; 2,020metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $34,540 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-2.5%).
- Registered Nurses$83,690 in Traverse City, MI sits 14.2% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,020 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$34,540 in Traverse City, MI sits 2.5% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,390 published local jobs).
Registered Nurses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Traverse City, MI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45900 · Traverse City, MI $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #276/528
- RPP-LOW 93.4
- OCC-MID 292 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $280K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -1.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH South Bend-Misha…
- BOOK-MOST 289 rows · May 2025
Read with South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (+$18 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Traverse City, MI
Employment scale inside Traverse City, MI's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Traverse City, MI's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 310 jobs · $119,810
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 260 jobs · $104,610
- 3. Sales Managers 240 jobs · $104,090
- 4. Physical Therapists 240 jobs · $101,640
- 5. Lawyers 190 jobs · $107,460
- 6. Physician Assistants 170 jobs · $134,180
- 7. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $143,050
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 150 jobs · $104,390
- 9. Mechanical Engineers 140 jobs · $98,900
- 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $102,390
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $123,910
- 12. Physicians, All Other 110 jobs · $280,490
- 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $141,450
- 14. Dentists, General 80 jobs · $171,740
- 15. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $110,070
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $136,170
- 17. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $109,140
- 18. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $248,510
Occupations Tracked
292
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,463
employment-weighted, 289 complete rows
Top Salary
$280,490
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
93.4
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Traverse City, MI
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $280,490 |
| 2 | Chief Executives | $248,510 |
| 3 | Dentists, General | $171,740 |
| 4 | Family Medicine Physicians | $168,080 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $143,050 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $141,450 |
| 7 | Marketing Managers | $137,590 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $136,170 |
| 9 | Physician Assistants | $134,180 |
| 10 | Veterinarians | $124,330 |
| 11 | Nurse Practitioners | $123,910 |
| 12 | Financial Managers | $119,810 |
| 13 | Optometrists | $118,030 |
| 14 | Managers, All Other | $110,070 |
| 15 | Human Resources Managers | $109,140 |
| 16 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $108,970 |
| 17 | Lawyers | $107,460 |
| 18 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $104,610 |
| 19 | Industrial Production Managers | $104,390 |
| 20 | Sales Managers | $104,090 |
| 21 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products | $102,850 |
| 22 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $102,390 |
| 23 | Physical Therapists | $101,640 |
| 24 | Electrical Engineers | $101,210 |
| 25 | Mechanical Engineers | $98,900 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Traverse City, MI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bailiffs | $25,960 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $27,370 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,270 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,430 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,560 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,740 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $29,790 |
| Cashiers | $30,920 |
| Dishwashers | $31,130 |
| Animal Caretakers | $31,970 |
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 ($57,463 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.