Medical Assistants
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 430.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of medical assistants in Traverse City earn more.
$42,580 in Traverse City buys what $45,600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo | $46,690 | $49,200 | 94.8 | +8.0% |
| Ann Arbor | $43,180 | $42,800 | 100.9 | −6.1% |
| Traverse City This page | $42,580 | $45,600 | 93.4 | — |
| Saginaw | $41,330 | $45,500 | 90.9 | −0.3% |
| Niles | $41,100 | $44,500 | 92.4 | −2.4% |
| Jackson | $40,230 | $43,800 | 91.8 | −3.9% |
| Muskegon | $40,190 | $43,400 | 92.5 | −4.7% |
| Battle Creek | $39,980 | $44,200 | 90.5 | −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
- 430 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 31-9092, Medical Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as medical-assistants.
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.