Industrial Engineers in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$76,291
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$25,389
25.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,002
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$101,680
Kept after tax
$76,291
Worth in national money
$81,002
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Michigan pays industrial engineers around $101,680 at the midpoint, 27 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Michigan reports, industrial engineers comes in at 60 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $101,680 you keep $76,291 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $81,002 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $105,550, since top earners drag the number up.
- For industrial engineers the Michigan median is $101,680, ranking 27 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Industrial engineers ranks 60 of 493 occupations by median in Michigan, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Michigan is $76,291 after the full tax stack, from $101,680. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $81,002 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $105,550 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Industrial Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $74,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $140,140 |
| This salary | $101,680 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Michigan | $76,291 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,362 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,696 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $95,894 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,342 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,680 as a midpoint for Michigan, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $74,060 and the ninetieth is $140,140 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Michigan's $76,291, worked from $101,680. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 60 of 493.
- Two cautions on $81,002, the adjusted value of that $101,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Michigan. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 60 of 493 locally.
- The Michigan median of $101,680 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $74,060 to $140,140. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Michigan take-home of $76,291, on $101,680 for work ranking 60 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 60 of 493 in the state.
- This $81,002 adjusted figure, worked from $101,680, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 60 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 60 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $105,550, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $74,060 at the tenth percentile, $140,140 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Michigan is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $81,002 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Michigan adds its own income tax on top — which is why $76,291 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Michigan is $105,550. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($74,060 to $140,140) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Michigan rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $81,002 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $76,291 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.