2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Lawyers

Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 190.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 23-1011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$107,460 · 50th
$67,33010th
$79,67025th
$107,46050th
$170,39075th
$236,65090th

That is the medianhalf of lawyers in Traverse City earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Michigan

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Traverse City
Detroit$134,980$134,600100.3+16.9%
Ann Arbor$132,920$131,800100.9+14.5%
Grand Rapids$129,360$135,40095.5+17.6%
Lansing$128,610$135,40095.0+17.6%
Niles$123,030$133,20092.4+15.7%
Kalamazoo$112,400$118,50094.8+3.0%
Flint$107,830$115,90093.0+0.7%
Traverse City This page$107,460$115,10093.4

Price parity and difference against Traverse City are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

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.

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