Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 640.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Traverse City earn more.
$36,860 in Traverse City buys what $39,500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traverse City This page | $36,860 | $39,500 | 93.4 | — |
| Jackson | $36,620 | $39,900 | 91.8 | +1.1% |
| Grand Rapids | $36,310 | $38,000 | 95.5 | −3.7% |
| Ann Arbor | $36,030 | $35,700 | 100.9 | −9.5% |
| Battle Creek | $35,500 | $39,200 | 90.5 | −0.7% |
| Niles | $35,490 | $38,400 | 92.4 | −2.7% |
| Detroit | $35,450 | $35,300 | 100.3 | −10.5% |
| Muskegon | $34,990 | $37,800 | 92.5 | −4.2% |
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
- 640 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 25-9045, Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary. Mapped to our taxonomy as teaching-assistants-except-postsecondary.
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