Cooks, Restaurant
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,060.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$37,270 in Traverse City buys what $39,900 buys across the country as a whole.
Traverse City's regional price parity is 93.4 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Michigan
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Traverse City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Arbor | $38,290 | $38,000 | 100.9 | −4.9% |
| Detroit | $37,410 | $37,300 | 100.3 | −6.6% |
| Grand Rapids | $37,360 | $39,100 | 95.5 | −2.0% |
| Traverse City This page | $37,270 | $39,900 | 93.4 | — |
| Lansing | $37,100 | $39,100 | 95.0 | −2.2% |
| Battle Creek | $37,000 | $40,900 | 90.5 | +2.4% |
| Kalamazoo | $36,760 | $38,800 | 94.8 | −2.9% |
| Jackson | $36,680 | $40,000 | 91.8 | +0.1% |
Price parity and difference against Traverse City are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 1,060 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-2014, Cooks, Restaurant. Mapped to our taxonomy as cooks-restaurant.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.