Lawyers
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 190.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of lawyers in Traverse City earn more.
$107,460 in Traverse City buys what $115,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | $134,980 | $134,600 | 100.3 | +16.9% |
| Ann Arbor | $132,920 | $131,800 | 100.9 | +14.5% |
| Grand Rapids | $129,360 | $135,400 | 95.5 | +17.6% |
| Lansing | $128,610 | $135,400 | 95.0 | +17.6% |
| Niles | $123,030 | $133,200 | 92.4 | +15.7% |
| Kalamazoo | $112,400 | $118,500 | 94.8 | +3.0% |
| Flint | $107,830 | $115,900 | 93.0 | +0.7% |
| Traverse City This page | $107,460 | $115,100 | 93.4 | — |
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
- 190 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 23-1011, Lawyers. Mapped to our taxonomy as lawyers.
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.