Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 450.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$66,020 in Traverse City buys what $70,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay City | $74,010 | $80,500 | 91.9 | +13.9% |
| Saginaw | $73,810 | $81,200 | 90.9 | +14.9% |
| Lansing | $72,930 | $76,800 | 95.0 | +8.6% |
| Traverse City This page | $66,020 | $70,700 | 93.4 | — |
| Flint | $65,620 | $70,500 | 93.0 | −0.2% |
| Detroit | $65,210 | $65,000 | 100.3 | −8.0% |
| Battle Creek | $65,090 | $71,900 | 90.5 | +1.7% |
| Ann Arbor | $64,060 | $63,500 | 100.9 | −10.2% |
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
- 450 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 25-2021, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education. Mapped to our taxonomy as elementary-school-teachers-except-special-education.
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