First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 700.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$43,030 in Traverse City buys what $46,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traverse City This page | $43,030 | $46,100 | 93.4 | — |
| Ann Arbor | $42,340 | $42,000 | 100.9 | −8.9% |
| Detroit | $38,570 | $38,500 | 100.3 | −16.6% |
| Jackson | $38,210 | $41,600 | 91.8 | −9.7% |
| Kalamazoo | $37,500 | $39,500 | 94.8 | −14.2% |
| Midland | $37,400 | $40,700 | 91.9 | −11.7% |
| Bay City | $37,380 | $40,700 | 91.9 | −11.8% |
| Battle Creek | $37,290 | $41,200 | 90.5 | −10.6% |
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
- 700 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-1012, First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-food-preparation-and-serving-workers.
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