Fast Food and Counter Workers
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,730.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$28,560 in Traverse City buys what $30,600 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 | $33,220 | $32,900 | 100.9 | +7.7% |
| Detroit | $29,590 | $29,500 | 100.3 | −3.5% |
| Muskegon | $28,850 | $31,200 | 92.5 | +1.9% |
| Kalamazoo | $28,790 | $30,400 | 94.8 | −0.8% |
| Lansing | $28,640 | $30,200 | 95.0 | −1.4% |
| Traverse City This page | $28,560 | $30,600 | 93.4 | — |
| Midland | $28,480 | $31,000 | 91.9 | +1.3% |
| Flint | $28,330 | $30,500 | 93.0 | −0.4% |
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
- 1,730 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.