Michigan · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Michigan

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 583,000 people in Michigan across roughly 20,754 establishments, with average annual pay of $85,760.

Employment in Manufacturing in Michigan grew 5.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in Michigan as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.63). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Michigan are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 583,000Employment, 2025
  • 20,754Establishments
  • $85,760Avg. annual pay
  • 13.2%Share of Michigan jobs
  • 1.63Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Michigan, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 695,500 to 583,000.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 695,500; 2005 678,000; 2006 649,200; 2007 620,700; 2008 575,800; 2009 465,000; 2010 475,400; 2011 509,800; 2012 535,800; 2013 554,500; 2014 576,600; 2015 585,700; 2016 599,900; 2017 615,100; 2018 627,800; 2019 625,700; 2020 554,800; 2021 585,800; 2022 603,400; 2023 613,200; 2024 600,800; 2025 583,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025582,98020,754$85,761 3.0%est. · 1.00
2024600,76119,739$82,422 2.0%est. · 1.00
2023613,23621,053$78,459 1.6%est. · 1.00
2022603,42119,258$75,192 3.0%est. · 1.00
2021585,80917,900$71,687 5.6%est. · 1.00
2020554,77117,438$70,769 11.3%est. · 1.00
2019625,69116,949$68,464 0.3%est. · 1.00
2018627,75116,070$67,537 2.1%pub.
2017615,10615,721$66,395 2.5%pub.
2016599,85515,237$65,188 2.4%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing44,4047.6%0.88pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing9,4801.6%1.02est. · 1.00
313Textile Mills3960.1%0.17pub.
314Textile Product Mills1,9860.3%0.76pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing1,4180.2%0.63pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing3420.1%0.51pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing9,2621.6%0.81pub.
322Paper Manufacturing11,8442.0%1.19pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities11,3541.9%1.16pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing1,8770.3%0.61pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing28,8765.0%1.14pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing37,7236.5%1.90pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing12,1652.1%1.04pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing18,2823.1%1.78pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing68,52111.8%1.69pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing66,18811.3%2.15pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing22,0693.8%0.78pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing13,6842.4%1.12pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing174,06929.9%3.46pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing19,5523.4%2.07pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing29,4895.1%1.70pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Manufacturing in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Michigan. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.