The local economy of Michigan and its counties, metro areas and cities, from official US government data, plus daily local gas prices for the state, its counties and metro areas.
Unemployment rate
5.0%
+0.1 ptsvs a year ago
Counties: lowest Grand Traverse County 3.5%, highest Oscoda County 8.6%.
August 2026, seasonally adjusted, preliminary
Average weekly pay
$1,445
+3.9%vs a year ago
4,357,481 jobs at 312,614 business locations.
Q1 2026, all jobs
New homes permitted
22,528
-7.0%this year vs last year
Most in Wayne County 2,999, Kent County 2,400.
Homes in the last 12 months, to August 2026
People moving in
-9,417
-1.2 per 1,000residents
121,795 moved in and 131,212 moved out. Most newcomers came from Florida.
Net people, 2022 to 2023, the newest year published
Michigan gas price
$4.67
+$1.71vs a year ago
Counties: lowest Dickinson County $4.16, highest Mackinac County $4.81. Counties and metro areas
Regular, per gallon, Michigan, October 10, 2026
Newest data: -. Not seasonally adjusted: compare with the same month a year earlier. Click a row for the history of that area.
The state, its counties and metro areas, updated daily. A separate series from the weekly survey prices above.
Business locations, employees and payroll by industry, 2023. Click an industry for its US report.
Business locations
230K
+0.7%vs 2022
2023, places with paid employees
Employees
4.04M
+2.6%vs 2022
Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance (16.0%).
2023, mid-March
Annual payroll
$247.3B
Wages and salaries paid during the year.
2023, all industries
Average pay
$61,194
Highest sector: Utilities $132,275.
Per employee per year
Share of Michigan's employees, 2023
| Industry | Employees | Average pay |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 310,151 | $21,521 |
| Employment Services | 219,395 | $40,881 |
| General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | 193,015 | $69,405 |
| Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing | 124,432 | $64,653 |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 122,995 | $111,157 |
| General Merchandise Stores, including Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters | 94,127 | $28,513 |
| Offices of Physicians | 92,800 | $90,786 |
| Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services | 91,672 | $106,003 |
| Grocery Stores | 60,920 | $27,784 |
| Building Equipment Contractors | 60,646 | $79,586 |
| Services to Buildings and Dwellings | 55,823 | $43,347 |
| Depository Credit Intermediation | 52,959 | $81,386 |
Most values are changed slightly to protect the privacy of single businesses; a few are withheld and shown as a range. Counties and metro areas have the same numbers in the area card above (Industries).
Offered pay in certified work-visa filings, fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025). Click a company for its jobs and salaries.
In fiscal year 2025, employers offered a median of $105,000 a year in 12,952 certified H-1B filings for jobs in Michigan, up 7.0% from 2024 (US: $120,000). The largest job group was Software Developers. Fiscal year 2026 so far covers filings decided through Jun 30, 2026.
Median offered pay
$105,000
+7.0%vs 2024
Middle half: $85,348 to $130,000.
H-1B, fiscal year 2025
H-1B filings
12,952
-0.6%vs 2024
15,839 positions asked for.
Certified, full-time, fiscal year 2025
Top job group
$114,692
Software Developers, 3,575 filings.
Median offered pay of the largest job group
Green card jobs
$104,062
+3.5%vs 2024
3,183 PERM filings.
PERM median, fiscal year 2025
Median and middle half of the offers in Michigan, next to the US median. Hover a year for the numbers.
| Job group | Filings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 3,575 | $114,692 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 1,784 | $109,241 |
| Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians | 828 | $102,731 |
| Electrical Engineers | 594 | $114,665 |
| Industrial Engineers | 539 | $101,192 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 532 | $97,178 |
| Data Scientists | 451 | $90,000 |
| Computer Programmers | 259 | $78,021 |
| Computer Systems Analysts | 246 | $91,021 |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | 216 | $158,466 |
| Employer | Filings | Cities |
|---|---|---|
| Ford Motor Company F | 752 | 25 |
| General Motors Company GM | 642 | 17 |
| University of Michigan | 504 | 8 |
| Fca US LLC | 289 | 6 |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. CTSH | 213 | 26 |
| Tata Consultancy Services Limited TCS.NS | 192 | 24 |
| Henry Ford Health System | 179 | 23 |
| United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC | 157 | 1 |
| Michigan State University | 124 | 5 |
| Robert Bosch LLC | 98 | 2 |
| City | Filings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dearborn | 1,204 | $118,934 | $97,136 to $132,350 |
| Auburn Hills | 1,106 | $108,178 | $89,480 to $130,200 |
| Detroit | 1,050 | $102,814 | $83,525 to $131,898 |
| Ann Arbor | 944 | $90,000 | $68,000 to $124,826 |
| Troy | 942 | $104,677 | $89,607 to $126,476 |
| Farmington Hills | 697 | $98,000 | $84,000 to $122,000 |
| Novi | 683 | $109,512 | $94,772 to $130,482 |
| Warren | 606 | $123,188 | $103,679 to $140,000 |
| Southfield | 515 | $113,637 | $90,000 to $135,000 |
| Grand Rapids | 407 | $97,032 | $78,010 to $130,000 |
Yearly pay that employers offered in certified work-visa filings (H-1B, E-3 and PERM green card), from official public data. Pay is the lower end of the offered pay range, for full-time positions only. These are offered pay figures for positions in work-visa filings, not the pay of all employees. A filing is an offer for a position, not a hire, and one person can appear in several filings. Fiscal years run from October to September. Groups with fewer than 3 filings show counts only. Employers are ranked by filings in the cities of Michigan added up.
Declared disasters and flood insurance claims: what happened, from official public data.
Michigan has had 46 declared disasters and emergencies since 1953, 20 of them since 2000, most often Flood. Flood insurance has paid $150.4 million on 14,954 claims since 1978; the biggest year was 2020 ($33.8 million).
Declared disasters
20
14 major disasters. Most often Flood (14 since 1953).
Since 2000, all types; 46 since 1953
Flood claims paid
$76.1M
3,242 claims. Biggest year 2020 ($33.8M).
2016 to 2025, flood insurance
Policies in force
19,257
Average premium $784 a year.
2025, flood insurance policies
Most-declared county
10
Oakland County, latest Feb 8, 2024.
Declarations since 2000
Declarations for Michigan, 1953 to today
Claims paid in Michigan by the year of the flood, US dollars
Declarations since 1953
Declarations naming the county since 2000; statewide ones not counted
All years since 1978; policies are a yearly average. Top 15 of 76.
| # | County | Claims | Paid | Policies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midland County | 547 | $28.0M | 338 |
| 2 | Wayne County | 2,892 | $13.7M | 3,708 |
| 3 | Saginaw County | 798 | $11.8M | 1,383 |
| 4 | Kent County | 676 | $10.4M | 733 |
| 5 | Monroe County | 1,672 | $9.93M | 1,730 |
| 6 | Macomb County | 1,437 | $9.01M | 2,066 |
| 7 | Oakland County | 582 | $5.51M | 1,389 |
| 8 | St. Clair County | 1,184 | $5.23M | 1,565 |
| 9 | Kalamazoo County | 291 | $5.15M | 232 |
| 10 | Berrien County | 310 | $4.43M | 405 |
| 11 | Newaygo County | 153 | $4.30M | 103 |
| 12 | Ottawa County | 336 | $3.36M | 499 |
| 13 | Genesee County | 467 | $3.31M | 431 |
| 14 | Barry County | 281 | $3.05M | 216 |
| 15 | Bay County | 515 | $2.49M | 875 |
A declaration opens federal help after a disaster; it can name counties or the whole state. Flood insurance numbers count insured losses only (most homes have no flood insurance) and are not adjusted for inflation; the current year is data so far. For the flood-zone risk of a place, open the area on the real estate map.
Environmental compliance records, workplace safety inspections and greenhouse gas reports of facilities in Michigan, from official public data.
Official public data lists 10,650 facilities in Michigan with records since 2010, 10,551 of them with environmental compliance records. In 2022 to 2026, the largest penalties were at Ees Coke Battery L.L.C. (P0408) in Detroit ($100,000,000). 298 large facilities reported 69.0 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2023, down 9.6% from 2022.
Facilities with records
10,650
10,551 with environmental records.
Since 2010
Largest penalties
$100.0M
Ees Coke Battery L.L.C. (P0408), Detroit.
One facility, 2022 to 2026
Greenhouse gases
69.0M t
-9.6%vs 2022
298 reporting facilities.
Metric tons CO2e, 2023
Largest emitter
11.4M t
Monroe, Monroe.
Metric tons CO2e, 2023
| Facility | Penalties | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| Ees Coke Battery L.L.C. (P0408) Detroit | $100,000,000 | 17 |
| Diesel Ops Waterford | $10,455,925 | 0 |
| Orion Diesel LLC Waterford | $10,455,925 | 0 |
| Eq Detroit INC Detroit | $927,423 | 39 |
| Otr Performance, INC Macomb | $770,000 | 0 |
| Petro-Chem Processing Group of Nortru LLC Detroit | $491,846 | 86 |
| General Motors Powetrain Saginaw | $462,000 | 2 |
| Warren Truck Assembly Plant (Wtap) Warren | $371,454 | 5 |
| Gfl Environmental - Arbor Hills Landfill Northville | $355,109 | 2 |
| Green Diesel Engineering, LLC Commerce, Township of | $350,000 | 0 |
| Facility | Metric tons CO2e |
|---|---|
| Monroe Monroe | 11,413,347 |
| J H Campbell West Olive | 6,673,594 |
| Belle River Saint Clair Haven | 5,816,276 |
| Midland Cogeneration Venture Midland | 4,609,330 |
| Dearborn Industrial Generation (N6631) Dearborn | 3,294,868 |
| Covert Generating Station (N6767) Covert | 2,950,609 |
| Blue Water Energy East China Township | 2,786,263 |
| Indeck Niles LLC (N6921) Niles | 2,628,297 |
| Consumers Energy CO.- Zeeland Generating Station Zeeland | 2,181,724 |
| Holcim USA INC - Lafarge Alpena Plant Alpena | 1,769,013 |
Large facilities in Michigan, metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Hover a year for the number.
Their facilities in Michigan, 2022 to 2026. Click a company for its Risk & Compliance tab.
| Company | Facilities | Penalties | CO2e (t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Energy Company DTE | 21 | $100.0M | 23.0M |
| Stellantis N.v. STLA | 9 | $598K | 303K |
| General Motors Company GM | 27 | $524K | 244K |
| GFL Environmental Inc. GFL | 6 | $355K | 420K |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company SHW | 23 | $267K | - |
| Graphic Packaging Holding Company GPK | 2 | $229K | 245K |
| Daimler Truck Holding AG DTG.DE | 1 | $125K | 24K |
| Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. CLF | 7 | $121K | 2.07M |
Official public data on environmental compliance records, workplace safety inspections and greenhouse gas reports, summarized by facility and year since 2010. A record does not mean a site is unsafe today; penalties and violations vary a lot by industry and size. Penalties are the amounts assessed (after settlements), not amounts paid. Recent years can still change.
Cost, students and graduate earnings of the colleges in the state, from official public data.
The newest unemployment rate, pay, new home permits, moves and gas price for Michigan, updated as new official numbers come out.
Unemployment for Michigan is seasonally adjusted; for its counties, metro areas and cities it is not, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. Pay covers all jobs that pay into unemployment insurance. Building permits count homes approved to be built, not homes sold. Moves count households by where they filed their tax returns in two years in a row. Daily gas prices are average pump prices for Michigan, its counties and metro areas on the day shown. The weekly gas prices in the explorer come from a separate weekly survey that publishes a price for only some states, so a state without one shows the price of its region there; the two series are never combined.
The unemployment rate in Michigan was 5.0% in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), compared with 4.9% a year earlier. 4,612,004 people were employed out of a labor force of 4,852,504. Among its counties, Grand Traverse County had the lowest rate (3.5%) and Oscoda County the highest (8.6%, not seasonally adjusted).
Average weekly pay in Michigan was $1,445 in Q1 2026, up 3.9% from a year earlier, across 4,357,481 jobs at 312,614 business locations.
Building permits were issued for 1,836 new homes in Michigan in August 2026 (1,429 single-family and 331 in buildings with 5 or more units). From January to August the total was 14,427, down 7.0% from the same months last year, and 22,528 in the last 12 months. The most homes were permitted in Wayne County (2,999), Kent County (2,400), Oakland County (2,193) over the last 12 months.
No, more people moved out than in. From 2022 to 2023, 121,795 people moved to Michigan and 131,212 moved away, a net loss of 9,417 (-1.2 per 1,000 residents). Most newcomers came from Florida, Ohio, Illinois, and most people who left went to Florida, Texas, Ohio.
Regular gasoline in Michigan averaged $4.67 per gallon on October 10, 2026, up $1.71 from a year earlier. Diesel averaged $6.51. Among its counties, Dickinson County had the lowest regular price ($4.16) and Mackinac County the highest ($4.81).
Health Care and Social Assistance (645,129 employees), Manufacturing (604,978 employees), Retail Trade (464,027 employees) were the largest sectors in Michigan in 2023. In all, 229,564 business locations employed 4,041,074 people at an average pay of $61,194 a year.
$105,000 a year was the median pay offered in 12,952 certified H-1B filings for jobs in Michigan in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), up 7.0% from 2024. The middle half of the offers ranged from $85,348 to $130,000. The US median was $120,000. These are offered pay figures in work-visa filings, not the pay of all workers.
Ford Motor Company (752), General Motors Company (642), University of Michigan (504), Fca US LLC (289), Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. (213) had the most certified H-1B filings for jobs in Michigan in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025).
Software Developers (3,575 filings, median $114,692), Mechanical Engineers (1,784 filings, median $109,241), Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians (828 filings, median $102,731) were the largest job groups in certified H-1B filings in Michigan in fiscal year 2025.
$123,188 was the median offered pay in Warren, the highest among the Michigan cities with the most H-1B filings in fiscal year 2025 (606 filings).
$104,062 a year was the median pay offered in 3,183 certified PERM green card filings for jobs in Michigan in fiscal year 2025.
46 disasters and emergencies have been declared for Michigan since 1953, 20 of them since 2000 (14 major disasters). The most common type is Flood (14 declarations).
Oakland County, with 10 declarations since 2000, followed by Eaton County (9) and Macomb County (9). Statewide declarations are not counted for single counties.
$150.4 million on 14,954 flood insurance claims since 1978. The biggest year was 2020, with $33.8 million paid on 817 claims. Midland County received the most ($28.0 million).
$784 a year in 2025, across 19,257 flood insurance policies in Michigan. Most homes have no flood insurance; the premium depends on the home's flood risk and coverage.