Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 740.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$57,700 in Traverse City buys what $61,800 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 | $59,230 | $58,700 | 100.9 | −5.0% |
| Detroit | $59,120 | $58,900 | 100.3 | −4.6% |
| Grand Rapids | $58,270 | $61,000 | 95.5 | −1.3% |
| Traverse City This page | $57,700 | $61,800 | 93.4 | — |
| Bay City | $57,320 | $62,400 | 91.9 | +0.9% |
| Lansing | $56,710 | $59,700 | 95.0 | −3.4% |
| Battle Creek | $56,160 | $62,000 | 90.5 | +0.4% |
| Jackson | $56,080 | $61,100 | 91.8 | −1.1% |
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
- 740 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 53-3032, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers. Mapped to our taxonomy as heavy-and-tractor-trailer-truck-drivers.
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.