Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 300.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$44,310 in Traverse City buys what $47,500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midland | $46,540 | $50,600 | 91.9 | +6.7% |
| Detroit | $46,310 | $46,200 | 100.3 | −2.7% |
| Ann Arbor | $45,250 | $44,900 | 100.9 | −5.5% |
| Kalamazoo | $45,140 | $47,600 | 94.8 | +0.3% |
| Grand Rapids | $45,110 | $47,200 | 95.5 | −0.5% |
| Traverse City This page | $44,310 | $47,500 | 93.4 | — |
| Lansing | $44,220 | $46,600 | 95.0 | −1.9% |
| Bay City | $44,000 | $47,900 | 91.9 | +0.9% |
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
- 300 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-5071, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks. Mapped to our taxonomy as shipping-receiving-and-inventory-clerks.
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.