Fast Food and Counter Workers
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 13,190.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Grand Rapids earn more.
$28,240 in Grand Rapids buys what $29,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Grand Rapids's regional price parity is 95.5 — 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. Grand Rapids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Arbor | $33,220 | $32,900 | 100.9 | +11.4% |
| Detroit | $29,590 | $29,500 | 100.3 | −0.2% |
| Muskegon | $28,850 | $31,200 | 92.5 | +5.5% |
| Kalamazoo | $28,790 | $30,400 | 94.8 | +2.7% |
| Lansing | $28,640 | $30,200 | 95.0 | +2.0% |
| Traverse City | $28,560 | $30,600 | 93.4 | +3.5% |
| Midland | $28,480 | $31,000 | 91.9 | +4.8% |
| Flint | $28,330 | $30,500 | 93.0 | +3.0% |
Price parity and difference against Grand Rapids are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 20.1% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Grand Rapids earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 13,190 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-3023, Fast Food and Counter Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as fast-food-and-counter-workers.
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.