State labor market
Michigan labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Michigan. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Michigan hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Michigan.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Michigan workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
112,310estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
95,020estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
85,860estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Michigan figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$94,300/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$125,570/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$76,270/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$78,820/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$65,110/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$138,510/yr Michigan median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Michigan occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Michigan workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Millwrights$89,190/yr state median · 2,900 workers+35.8%vs. U.S. $65,700/yr
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks$60,220/yr state median · 1,980 workers+35.7%vs. U.S. $44,390/yr
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door$96,890/yr state median · 2,240 workers+30.3%vs. U.S. $74,340/yr
- Demonstrators and product promoters$50,290/yr state median · 1,360 workers+27.9%vs. U.S. $39,320/yr
- Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters$80,190/yr state median · 14,120 workers+25.7%vs. U.S. $63,800/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- General internal medicine physicians$149,990/yr state median · 2,060 workers-41.5%vs. U.S. $256,560/yr
- Physicians, all other$155,480/yr state median · 13,150 workers-41.5%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Computer programmers$65,860/yr state median · 4,400 workers-34.4%vs. U.S. $100,390/yr
- Producers and directors$65,720/yr state median · 2,310 workers-27.3%vs. U.S. $90,360/yr
- Computer hardware engineers$119,670/yr state median · 1,420 workers-26.0%vs. U.S. $161,740/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Michigan
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Michigan. Links marked “Michigan report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Michigan report is available.
726 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.