Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 530.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$42,180 in Traverse City buys what $45,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Arbor | $46,740 | $46,300 | 100.9 | +2.6% |
| Kalamazoo | $44,860 | $47,300 | 94.8 | +4.7% |
| Bay City | $42,820 | $46,600 | 91.9 | +3.1% |
| Detroit | $42,320 | $42,200 | 100.3 | −6.6% |
| Traverse City This page | $42,180 | $45,200 | 93.4 | — |
| Lansing | $41,880 | $44,100 | 95.0 | −2.4% |
| Niles | $41,570 | $45,000 | 92.4 | −0.4% |
| Muskegon | $41,500 | $44,900 | 92.5 | −0.7% |
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
- 530 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-6013, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as medical-secretaries-and-administrative-assistants.
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