Security Guards
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 180.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of security guards in Traverse City earn more.
$40,060 in Traverse City buys what $42,900 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 | $42,100 | $41,700 | 100.9 | −2.7% |
| Midland | $40,880 | $44,500 | 91.9 | +3.7% |
| Grand Rapids | $40,810 | $42,700 | 95.5 | −0.4% |
| Saginaw | $40,730 | $44,800 | 90.9 | +4.4% |
| Traverse City This page | $40,060 | $42,900 | 93.4 | — |
| Jackson | $38,750 | $42,200 | 91.8 | −1.6% |
| Lansing | $38,210 | $40,200 | 95.0 | −6.2% |
| Kalamazoo | $37,340 | $39,400 | 94.8 | −8.2% |
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
- 180 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 33-9032, Security Guards. Mapped to our taxonomy as security-guards.
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.