Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 820.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$37,970 in Traverse City buys what $40,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | $38,820 | $38,700 | 100.3 | −4.8% |
| Ann Arbor | $38,710 | $38,400 | 100.9 | −5.6% |
| Traverse City This page | $37,970 | $40,700 | 93.4 | — |
| Lansing | $37,760 | $39,800 | 95.0 | −2.2% |
| Grand Rapids | $37,470 | $39,200 | 95.5 | −3.6% |
| Midland | $37,450 | $40,700 | 91.9 | +0.2% |
| Battle Creek | $37,360 | $41,300 | 90.5 | +1.5% |
| Kalamazoo | $37,320 | $39,400 | 94.8 | −3.2% |
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
- 820 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 37-3011, Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as landscaping-and-groundskeeping-workers.
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