Waiters and Waitresses
Traverse City, MI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,610.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of waiters and waitresses in Traverse City earn more.
$41,380 in Traverse City buys what $44,300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muskegon | $44,920 | $48,600 | 92.5 | +9.6% |
| Flint | $44,030 | $47,300 | 93.0 | +6.8% |
| Grand Rapids | $42,930 | $44,900 | 95.5 | +1.4% |
| Traverse City This page | $41,380 | $44,300 | 93.4 | — |
| Bay City | $40,500 | $44,100 | 91.9 | −0.6% |
| Ann Arbor | $40,230 | $39,900 | 100.9 | −10.0% |
| Jackson | $39,920 | $43,500 | 91.8 | −1.9% |
| Saginaw | $39,430 | $43,400 | 90.9 | −2.1% |
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
- 1,610 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-3031, Waiters and Waitresses. Mapped to our taxonomy as waiters-and-waitresses.
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.