Office Clerks, General
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,650.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$44,470 in Traverse City buys what $47,600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Creek | $46,200 | $51,000 | 90.5 | +7.1% |
| Lansing | $45,830 | $48,200 | 95.0 | +1.3% |
| Detroit | $45,810 | $45,700 | 100.3 | −4.1% |
| Grand Rapids | $45,320 | $47,400 | 95.5 | −0.4% |
| Kalamazoo | $44,500 | $46,900 | 94.8 | −1.5% |
| Traverse City This page | $44,470 | $47,600 | 93.4 | — |
| Jackson | $44,260 | $48,200 | 91.8 | +1.3% |
| Midland | $43,780 | $47,600 | 91.9 | +0.0% |
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
- 1,650 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-9061, Office Clerks, General. Mapped to our taxonomy as office-clerks-general.
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.