Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 880.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$38,420 in Traverse City buys what $41,100 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 | $38,420 | $41,100 | 93.4 | — |
| Ann Arbor | $38,080 | $37,700 | 100.9 | −8.3% |
| Detroit | $36,680 | $36,600 | 100.3 | −11.1% |
| Battle Creek | $35,960 | $39,700 | 90.5 | −3.5% |
| Grand Rapids | $35,890 | $37,600 | 95.5 | −8.7% |
| Monroe | $35,880 | $38,400 | 93.5 | −6.7% |
| Lansing | $35,730 | $37,600 | 95.0 | −8.6% |
| Midland | $35,670 | $38,800 | 91.9 | −5.7% |
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
- 880 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 37-2011, Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners. Mapped to our taxonomy as janitors-and-cleaners-except-maids-and-housekeeping-cleaners.
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.