Michigan · NAICS 331 · Annual, 2025
Primary Metal Manufacturing in Michigan
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 331 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Primary Metal Manufacturing (NAICS 331) employed about 18,300 people in Michigan across roughly 384 establishments, with average annual pay of $88,750.
Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Michigan declined 33.9% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.8× as concentrated in Michigan as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.78). Employment fell 38.3% from 2004 to 2009 and has since recovered 11.5% of that loss. 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.
- 18,300Employment, 2025
- 384Establishments
- $88,750Avg. annual pay
- 0.4%Share of Michigan jobs
- 1.78Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 27,600; 2005 27,000; 2006 26,000; 2007 24,800; 2008 23,200; 2009 17,100; 2010 18,300; 2011 20,900; 2012 21,400; 2013 21,400; 2014 22,000; 2015 22,100; 2016 21,900; 2017 22,200; 2018 22,700; 2019 22,400; 2020 18,300; 2021 18,100; 2022 18,600; 2023 18,900; 2024 18,500; 2025 18,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,282 | 384 | $88,754 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 18,542 | 364 | $82,138 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 18,930 | 387 | $79,195 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 18,612 | 352 | $76,673 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 18,072 | 334 | $72,886 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 18,286 | 333 | $69,606 | 18.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 22,351 | 319 | $68,712 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 22,714 | 314 | $69,448 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 22,210 | 319 | $69,837 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 21,913 | 320 | $64,562 | 1.0% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Primary Metal Manufacturing in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for primary metal manufacturing in Michigan. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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